Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
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People try to make women a very specific thing so that we like them.
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[It] is the little causes, long continued, which are considered as bringing about the greatest changes of the earth.
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The state has a duty to protect all its citizens.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.
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The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.
