Paul Verlaine Quotes
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
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It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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My vision is to have an independent Kosovo, democratic, with a politically tolerant society and with a solid economy, integrated into the EU, the NATO and to continue with our good relations with the USA.
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
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You ain't got the answers Sway!
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I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.
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Maybe he's growing up.Or maybe he just needed the right circumstances to discover the best in himself.
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Their forms had no more influence on me than they did on Matisse. Or Derain. But for them, the masks were sculptures like all others. When Matisse showed me his first African head, he spoke to me of Egyptian art.
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Men disappoint me so, I disappoint myself so, yet courage, patience, shuffle the cards ...
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I have a high art: I hurt with cruelty those who wound me.
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'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.
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Always follow your own path.
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I went to see Oliver Stone's 'Heaven & Earth,' which I thought was a wonderful movie, but I walked out because I was so moved. It was too painful to watch.
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'Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.'
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We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war.
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Les sanglots longsDes violonsDe l'automneBlessent mon cœurD'une langueurMonotone.
