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Holly Near

"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

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Akiroq Brost

"We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby."

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"Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'"

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"It's extraordinary to look into a baby's face and see a piece of your flesh and your spirit. It makes you realize you are a part of the human race."

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"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."

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"My initial career, really, as a baby, was as a singer."

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"I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?"

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"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."

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"I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!"

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"I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'"

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"It'd be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren't kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I'm not a baby sitter."

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Holly Near
"Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?"

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"White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people."

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"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."

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Holly Near
"Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think."

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"My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies."

Baby

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"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way."

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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."

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"When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this."

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"To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain."

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"Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself."

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