Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I cannot turn down this incredible honor twice.
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I hope I don't just sit around moping for two years.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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People will turn their noses up at a sequel or that type of thing, but Pixar really works hard - if they're making a sequel - to make a sequel an original movie, to make it an original story.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
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Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.
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The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
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From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
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I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.
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... the habit of literature [is] the best defense against believing the half-truths of ideologues and the lies of demagogues.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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We turn not older with years but newer every day.
