Emily Dickinson Quotes
Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
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When people think of me, I want them to think of a travel show host who's really funny and good at his job, and I think eventually the CP won't even play into it, or at least that's the goal.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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Citizenship and ethnicity can become, in certain contexts, restrictive, and perhaps that's one reason I was interested in people who feel compelled to mask their origins and thereby circumvent the restrictions.
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I don't know about the whole song-and-dance thing. But if India will have me, the independent cinema scene there is something I'm really interested in.
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I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
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Calm on the bosom of thy God,Fair spirit, rest thee now!
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The agitator must stand outside of organizations, with no bread to earn, no candidate to elect, no party to save, no object but truth - to tear a question open and riddle it with light.
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The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
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Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.
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We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.
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The strongest governments on earth cannot clean up pollution by themselves. They must rely on each ordinary person, like you and me, on our choices, and on our will.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
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Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.
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A friend of mine from New York asked me what I want to do, and I responded with, 'I want to make movies.' He responded with, 'Guess what? They're not making movies on Martha's Vineyard.' Literally ten minutes later, I was packing my bags.
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Elysium is as far as to The very nearest room, If in that room a friend await Felicity of doom.
