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Holly Near

"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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"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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"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song."

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"It was always me and the other guy. I came in second for a long time."

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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."

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"To convince oneself that one has the right to live decently takes time."

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"For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."

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"The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains."

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"I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

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"Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work."

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"Thirteen days. Almost two weeks. And, just five days in, she had learned a fundamental truth about time: Like the accordion on which sometimes played old Pashto songs were played, time stretched and contracted depending on his absence or presence."

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"I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter."
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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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"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner."
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"My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility."
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"It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think."
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"People love to hear the mistakes you've made."
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"Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point."
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"A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word."
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"To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'."
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"The war on drugs is a war against the communities."
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