Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Quotes
When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Buffalo Wild Wings is always a good choice.
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I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.
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People don't know how to behave in public anymore.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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When a wave of love takes over a human being... such an exaltation takes him that he knows he has put his finger on the pulse of the great secret and the great answer.
