Dylan Thomas Quotes
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.
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Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
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I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
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Persisting through lesser difficulties builds your capacity to persist through greater difficulties, and achieve even greater things.
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I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
