Charles Simic Quotes
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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One of the things in Obamacare is that for the elderly, is every five years, you must have end-of-year counseling. Translation, 'suicide counseling.'
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It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm.
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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
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Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'
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I found myself at the beginning of 'Mad Men,' because I wasn't a sample size, spending an exorbitant amount of money on a nice dress that I would never wear again because someone would say - 'Christina Hendricks wore this dress twice.'
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If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.
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I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.
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I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have climbed the Great Wall of China. I have jumped out of airplanes over Kansas.
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I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.
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Virginia Woolf's literature really transformed my own ideas about how to formally represent the passage of time and how time affects us. Specifically, the benchmarks are 'Mrs. Dalloway,' 'To the Lighthouse' and 'Orlando,' all of which have time as a central conceit.
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It's just too egotistical to think that we are the only lifeform in the universe.
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I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.
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I wanted to be Samson or Hercules from the age of six.
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I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
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Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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The mathematician who after seeing Phedre asked: 'Qu'est que ca prouve?' was not such a fool as he has been generally made out. No one has ever been able to explain why the Doric temple of Paestum is more beautiful than a glass of cold beer except by bringing in considerations that have nothing to do with beauty.
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Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
