Emily Dickinson Quotes
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
Quotes to Explore
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When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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My dad said, 'Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.' That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.
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The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.
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Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.
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What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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The world's a scene of changes, and to be constant, in nature were inconstancy.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted.
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I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had let me down.
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Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.
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They tell me that truth lies somewhere at the bottom of a well, and at virtually the door of our home is a most notable if long dried well. Our location is thus quite favorable, if we but keep patience.
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care — For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew.
