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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the…
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How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned…
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It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I…
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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
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It wasn't for children, seventh grade. You could read the stress of even entering the building in the postures of the teachers,…
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Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.
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Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also…
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The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is…
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All paths lead nowhere, choose one with heart,
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The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time *isn't*.
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our…
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it so much…
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To become a WRITER I had to learn to INTERRUPT, to speak up, to speak a little louder, and then LOUDER, and…
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I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.
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I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can't even stand to hear myself on…
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Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to…
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I'm learning to hate the sound of my own voice.
— Jonathan Lethem
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The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to…
— Brian Lumley
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
— Ian Hart
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I got more used to my own voice, but still it's hard for me to listen to my own voice, or hear…
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If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering…
— Lucille Clifton
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When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist…
— Allan Sloan
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I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within…
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