Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I don't set out to win awards. I don't think any musician does, but when you receive an award, it's an affirmation: it means that people appreciate what you do. Every award I have received is a confirmation of something I have done, and that motivates me to push a little harder.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
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A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.
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I'm not interested in playing the field and all that stuff because frankly I'm not into frivolous relationships.
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After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.
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We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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When you get out there on the mound, you've got what you've got, and you got to figure out a way to get outs.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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He's always been the person who's made me laugh most. He uses humour in a very disarming way. I've seen how people enjoy his company and have always envied that, and have wanted to aspire to that.
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Indian film awards lack credibility.
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I'm always in bed by 11 or 12 and people laugh all the time - they want me to hang out until two in the morning, but n-n-no, I need my nine hours.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
