Emily Dickinson Quotes
It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
Quotes to Explore
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't speak French. But suddenly everyone could speak English because he was so cute.
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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I grew up with Bond.
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Vig used to call me 'Elf boy', and I'd call him 'filthy human'. As an Elf, I never got a scratch on me, never got dirty. And Vig would come out with blood and sweat all over him. And he'd say to me, 'Oh, go manicure your nails.'
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I love men and I like to get their attention.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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I've always been more of a nerdy, academic type. I loved 'Star Wars' growing up. I have three older brothers, so they were a big influence on me. We loved 'Danger Mouse,' and we love 'Monty Python'. We loved any kind of British comedy and 'Wallace and Gromit' and all of that stuff.
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She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
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Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
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I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.
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It might be easier To fail with land in sight, Than gain my blue peninsula To perish of delight.
