Paul Verlaine Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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My nickname for my mom was 'The Compass.'
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Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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I always wonder if my kids will say they're mixed or black.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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Art matters.
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When I moved to New York out of college, that was my goal. To be a stage actress. And to do dramatic works. Like 'Madea', and 'Night, Mother', and 'Sam Shepard', and all that kind of stuff. That's what I really wanted to do.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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I think any actor just wants to keep working, and for me, I want to work on projects that are with fun people.
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Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression...
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But so fair,She takes the breath of men awayWho gaze upon her unaware.
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Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.
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Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence.
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We ourselves are the last to notice that we are not making any headway. It is brought to our notice from the outside; former students suddenly emerge as our superiors. As we grow older, the respect we receive diminishes: the disproportion between our age and our position becomes evident, first to other people and finally to ourselves. Then it is time to retreat.
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The back hair doesn't get all that long; it's just really thick. So if I don't keep it shaved once a week, it's a problem, and it could take two hours. And my wife's got to do it, so it's her problem. I told her we just need to buy a laser hair removal machine because it would take three or four years and probably 50 sessions to get rid of it.
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Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
