Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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I'd like to, when it's all said and done, say that I have at least a few stories that I feel proud of.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I was sitting alone in a grim mood – furious that the press attacked Senator Edwards on the price of a haircut. But it inspired me – from now on, all haircuts, etc., that are necessary and important for his campaign – please send the bills to me... It is a way to help our friend without government restrictions.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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The hour of the liberal interventionists like Hillary Clinton in Libya, like the neocons' hour of power in the GOP, is over.
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I am happy in Paris.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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Then my mother had several strokes and my father, who was 85, couldn't handle it, so Donna came back and we went through the same thing here. She lives in Mill Valley; her group is organizing this event.
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I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I'd look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5'5" or 5'6 whatever it was-to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
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The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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I live in Chicago, but my work is always in New York or L.A., so I always have to travel for my job.
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I never felt my career was going backwards.
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Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
