But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
ADRIAN MATEJKAIt’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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Bones was a grouch but he was sympathetic. The show worked like a boy band in that way… it had characters who embodied different psychic or emotional positions and that allowed me to see a great range of things
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The contrasts between the haves and have-nots is so complicated.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I was always casting about for role models as a kid and the Star Trek was always available via reruns and also full of possibilities.
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I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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The 1990s were also when a bunch of the soft-shoe language for race, gender, and class became paramount.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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