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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this. Sally Mann

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There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift. Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life Gift Our Way Our Lives Hidden Must One-Way Only Only One Way Through Misery Like Most She Accept Because Deal Passage Gracefully Move Experiences Acknowledge Really Lives Her Presence Brings

The House passage of our bill is a victory for this country! Common sense wins out. I'm just so thrilled and excited. The sale of guns must stop. Halfway measures are not enough. Sarah Brady

One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of the inner journey, should not be separated from the pursuing of the outer and social journey, because we are not isolated beings. Satish Kumar

Journey Religion Book Outer Pursuing He Read Because Said Passage Isolated Where Social Should Separated Gandhi Beings Inner

Unfortunately, since its passage in 1973, the War Powers Resolution has been stripped of its original purpose and has instead served as a temporary, de facto authorization for the executive branch to use military force whenever it deems it necessary. Scott Garrett

War Military Stripped Has-Been Temporary Purpose Facto Instead Since Powers Executive Executive Branch Force Passage Been Branch Authorization Whenever Unfortunately Use Military Force Original Served Necessary Resolution

I've been a huge cricket fan since my teens, and I often used to go down to St. Helen's in Swansea in the summer. To me, it was like a 'rites of passage' experience to have the freedom of St. Helen's cricket ground. Steffan Rhodri

Freedom Me Experience Down Cricket Teens Summer Rites Since Like Passage Go Been Huge Often Fan Used Ground

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me. Susan Glaspell

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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness. Tananarive Due

History Rights Age Strong Free Sense Civil Strong Sense Civil Rights Inspired Make Passage Began Very Middle Story Racial Us Roots Activists Consciousness Raised Alex

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time. Teena Marie

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In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a very close, formal analogue of one the stories in 'Dubliners.' That is because a novel is also a literary conversation. Teju Cole

Conversation Will Analogue Immediately Recognise City Open Joyce Also Reader Because Passage Very Close Any Formal Literary Stories Novel

Peter is an old friend. I'm heartbroken, but he's also a tough guy. I'm counting on him getting through this very difficult passage. Tom Brokaw

Old Tough Difficult Guy Tough Guy Through He Counting Also Him Passage Friend Very Heartbroken Getting Old Friend Peter

When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in for an audition for this pilot, and at that time, it was called 'Northwest Passage,' and nobody knew anything. I thought, 'Oh, okay, Lewis and Clark.' And from that moment, I fell down the rabbit hole. Wendy Robie

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On the night of 4 November 2008, Barack Obama was elected on a platform of 'hope' and 'change.' He was hailed as a 'uniter' in an age of 'dividers.' I experienced a political awakening that night. I watched as the hope that President Obama represented was tempered by the shocking passage of Proposition 8 by a majority of voters in California. Chelsea Manning

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I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It's something that you gain respect for. I used to watch people come out of prison, older cousins and the like, back in the day, and be in awe of them. Ashley Walters

But 18 years after the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, there still remains unfinished work to completely rectify and close this regrettable chapter in our Nation's history. Xavier Becerra

Work History Chapter Unfinished Nation Our Liberties Civil Civil Liberties Remains Rectify Passage Still Years Close After Regrettable Act

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'? Quentin Tarantino

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The first Black Migration to this country was forced migration. It was the Middle Passage. William Barr

Black First Country Forced Passage Middle Migration

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