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Holly Near Quotes

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 6, 1949

Topics

Work Responsibility Creativity Guilt

I get a lot of letters, mostly from family members who have been affected by cancer rather than young people themselves. I reply to them all.

Family People Young Letters Reply

I am neither such a great songwriter or such a great singer that the world must hear my album. There's just no point to make.

Great I Am World Singer Point Just

Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'

Death Look Wrong Say Punishment

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

John Shelton Reed

Nature Looks Stereotypes Now Still

Glenda Bailey is a woman after my own heart who believes that climbing the career ladder can be overrated, to say the least. After all, why not just go for what you want now?

Amanda de Cadenet

Heart Woman You Career Want Ladder

And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.

People Media You See Just Channels

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.

Life Job Media You Pool Shark

There's so much diversity on TV. It's actually reflecting American culture.

Culture Diversity American Reflecting

The Trade Center itself held - and holds - a special place, I think, in the hearts and minds of people in law enforcement - the fact that it did not fall in 1993. Ramzi Yousef's goal was to topple the Twin Towers into each other so that more people died than had died at Hiroshima.

People Law Law Enforcement Think

It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan.

Love Community Support Me Right

While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

Bruce Springsteen

Good School Writing Better English

Generally, if a good script comes in I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character, it doesn't have to be a huge part. It could be a nice cameo - anything that I think is good and surrounded by good, enthusiastic people.

Good Character People Me Think Nice

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