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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Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' The dog did nothing in the night-time.' That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
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I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
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What we are going to offer is not a one-way communication, but one-to-one communication.
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Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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Et je m'en vaisAu vent mauvaisQui m'emporteDeçà, delà,Pareil à laFeuille morte.
