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I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

~Ali Smith

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With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

~Alia Shawkat

Topics: Actor Another Attached Call Connected Film Independent Independent Film Involvement Just Like More Much Sheet Showing Showing Up Up Very You

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Drinking beer is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion.

~Alice Cooper

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I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Am Become Call Case Catholic Defender Faith Feel Historian Itself Language Naming Prayer Remains Ritual Search Theologian Things Valuable I Am I Feel

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I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Any Back Call Cause Changed Forward Handy Life Look Make Moments Myself Pause Rituals Sort Think Those Understand Us Use Wakes Weddings I Think I Can

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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

~Alice Mcdermott

Topics: Appears Call Church Experience Formed Language Lots Much Once Oral Prayers Sense Song Spirit Third Time Tradition Twice Which You

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I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

~Alice Munro

Topics: Attention Believe Brought Call Could Disease Early Exception Mother Parkinson Punished Rule Smart Thing Think Up Were Worst Worst Thing You Yourself

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I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that's my religion.

~Alice Walker

Topics: Admire Believe Buddhist Call Earth Enjoy Free Free Spirit Here Myself Religion Spirit I Believe

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'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.

~Alicia Garza

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Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

~Alicia Garza

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