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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#avoided #dark #imagination #meet #memory

I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#always #beautiful #being #bit #break

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#achieve #between #continual #continually #difficult

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#ever #exploring #god #i #interested

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#enjoy #guys #hang #high #high school

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#because #capitalist #capitalist society #communications #consist

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive. ↗

— Rita Dove

#alive #come #extremely #had #i

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing. ↗

— Rita Dove

#began #college #entire #entire life #i

For you, it's a silent movie. For us, it's a talking movie because we had lines on set. There's a lot of noise on set and music. We spoke in English, in French, in gibberish, but it was very alive. The challenge was tap dancing. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#because #challenge #dancing #english #french

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #find #hard #i #i think