Emily Dickinson Quotes
I took one Draught of Life -I'll tell you what I paid -Precisely an existence -The market price, they said.
Quotes to Explore
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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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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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westers about what the market really means.
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I cannot think of a greater blessing than to die in one's own bed, without warning or discomfort, on the last page of a new book that we most wanted to read.
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Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting in the heart of words, seeing clearly into the cell of a word, feeling that the word is the seed of a life, a growing dawn... The poet Vandercammen says all that in a line: "A word can be a dawn and even a sure shelter."
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Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.
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My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel.
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I took one Draught of Life -I'll tell you what I paid -Precisely an existence -The market price, they said.
