Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?
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Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
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The only disadvantage I see is that it would force everyone to get Perl. Horrors.
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I know what I liked as a child, and I don’t do any book that I, as a child, wouldn’t have liked.
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Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.
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We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.
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If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.
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The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.
