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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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
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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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Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.
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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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However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.
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I quit 'Splash!' because I couldn't dive off a 3 m. board.
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We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.
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There are movies where actors aren't characters but movie stars, being cool beyond belief throughout the whole movie. That is what it is. And we reveal ourselves when we act, very often without noticing. But if I can manage to do a character without showing anything of myself, then that's the ultimate goal for me. No leakage.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
