Mines Quotes - Page 33

• That said, I'm embarrassed and furious that so many coal-state Democrats in the U.S. Senate are paralyzing international progress to protect the short term interests of a dying industry that ravages the environment from mine to slag heap.

  Denis Hayes

  Progress, Dying, Coal

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• The more subtle thing is more speculative. The world is well past its long-term carrying capacity for human beings living a European, much less an American, lifestyle predicated on planned obsolescence. International economic growth is largely a matter of accelerated movement of materials from mines and forests to the dump. Instead of saving and buying decent furniture we can pass on to our children, we charge our credit cards for shaped heaps of sawdust and glue that fall apart in less than three or four years.

  Denis Hayes

  Children, Fall, Past

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

  Biz Stone

  Book, Design, Community

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Mine is really - Ziggy Stardust, characters, "Let's Dance." That's me in the American.

  David Bowie

  Character, Stardust

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• My grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. Some heroes of mine have long been the Jewish Partisans, these young people who just went into the woods with whatever guns and bombs and what not they could get their hands on, and just would fight Nazis, and try to help people escape.

  Margaret D. Klein

  Hero, Grandmother, Fighting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel that one of the most important things I can do is connect climate change to the values, the faith, and the issues we already care about. And if, in the process, I have to sidestep around some very explosive mines, I will do that.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Issues, Important, Climate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  Lily King

  Childhood, Feelings, Different

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think it's a huge shortcoming of mine - this disconnect between the world of human and animals. We are animals.

  Rachel Zucker

  Thinking, Animal, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim Stanley Robinson's novel 2312 is a great example, as is Tobias Buckell's novel Arctic Rising.

  Annalee Newitz

  Thinking, Numbers, Example

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very committed to its educational institutions, including my alma mater Central Falls High School's drama program, because I know that's what got me my start. I do everything I can to keep it alive since it made me feel like I had something to give to the world. I also support the Segue Institute for Learning, a charter school in Central Falls run by a friend of mine that my niece attends. I'm committed to that because of its proven results. They have the highest math scores of any charter school in Rhode Island.

  Viola Davis

  Running, Educational, Niece

  Source: aalbc.com

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• A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

  Roz Chast

  Kids, Thinking, Advice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I suppose that it's my impulse to mine, as a writer, these scary parts of ourselves and the world.

  Edan Lepucki

  Scary, World, Impulse

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this other universe from this other galaxy that has nothing to do with mine? That's how I really feel about it. Let's be honest - I'm still the writer, so certain things will be common denominators. But that I just want to keep natural and not studied.

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Book, Ideas, Want

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If somebody wanted to go and find songs of mine to fill an iPod, that aren't on any records. They could probably find dozens of songs besides the ones that are on records.

  Regina Spektor

  Song, Ipods, Records

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• Everybody's got a dark side, but mine doesn't include being around people who are mean.

  Annie E. Clark

  Mean, Dark, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.

  Adam Young

  Needs, Kind, Disappear

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• The facts, however, are unimportant in fiction. It's not the events of my life that I mine, but the emotional experiences I've had.

  John Dufresne

  Emotional, Events, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Ariana is a huge supporter of mine; she's a big fan - she told me that when I met her. She's cool, her voice is crazy, she's got a great, great voice.

  Big Sean

  Crazy, Voice, Fans

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• An initial impulse of mine was to portray the way in which a city is impacted by war. But this is vague, no? After all, how do you actually have an entire city - or country, for that matter - be a character a reader can follow? One way is by making it smaller and personalizing it, by writing specifically about the citizens and the way they contend with the reality, even minutiae, especially minutiae, of their lives.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Country, War, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Some friends of mine in the class ahead of me in college were auditioning for graduate school in New York, and then a few of them got into Juilliard, and it sort of opened my eyes. I didn't really know anything about it, but it opened my eyes to a possible next step after school, where I could just deepen my knowledge and also not be responsible for life and stay in school.

  Peter Jacobson

  New York, School, Eye

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The other reason I didn't want to fictionalize it is because one of the main points of publishing a memoir in nonfiction was that I wanted to write about what had been a very lonely experience. The books that most saved my life as a kid were the ones that articulated lonely experiences that I had thought were mine alone.

  Melissa Febos

  Lonely, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A friend of mine urged me to see my pain as an opportunity. And since the same psychic that contacted Dion Fortune had told me that I was a "teacher" - she didn't mean at Columbia, she meant in the spiritual sense - I decided my affliction was the universe telling me that it was time to stop writing fiction and become the spiritual guru I was clearly meant to be.

  Heidi Julavits

  Spiritual, Teacher, Pain

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.

  Julianna Baggott

  New York, Book, Notable

  Interview with Roxane Gay, therumpus.net. May 11, 2012.

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• I'm just like anyone else. I have ideals that I grasp onto but I try not to grasp on too tightly and to be open to other people's thoughts and opinions even if they're completely different than mine.

  Michelle Glick

  People, Trying, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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