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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Life is a zoo in a jungle.
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I know that when a fighter is out of the ring for more than two years, when he comes back he isn't the same anymore. Each fighter is different. But each must think, even if something goes wrong, 'I have to make this decision and live with it for the rest of my life.'
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Great sermon helped me to reflect on scape goats, forgiveness, revenge and the messiness of community. .. where I referenced this sermon. Thanks! Keep preaching the damn Gospel!
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Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
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I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
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Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
