Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his legs were and what happened because, unfortunately, he didn't take care of himself.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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I'm not educated about cinema or genres.
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Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!
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For me to own land in Detroit, it was a badge of honor, and it was support for the city.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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When the time is right, I will do female-centric films.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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''A woman's wisdom is her gift to women,'' Peggy quoted. ''Her beauty is her gift to men. Her love is her gift to God.''
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'Fiji can make a similar report on the US on all those issues. Our report would be far worse than the US state department's report on Fiji.' (2 March 2005, reacting to a US State Department report critical on the state of race relations in Fiji).
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I wish I could come back here whenever I wanted to have these views. And also the rest of the world had the opportunity to come up here, but it is time to end the mission.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the level of sheer information and change somebody's life two degrees. That is an enormous achievement.
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It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.
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Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
