Don Marquis Quotes
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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Do not tell somebody how to vote, just go up to them and tell them what Fahrenheit 9/11 meant to you. Fahrenheit will probably not win an Academy Award, but if you put it first on your list, it will become a nominee.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
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I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
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I have no doubts that it will be a major sport-in the United States. I'm probably not going to live to see that day because Americans are a little afraid of getting interested in something at which they're not very good.
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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Ever since I was really really little, I was just singing all the time. Like one of my favorite games when I was little would be to just have one of my sisters pick a title, and I would impromptu create that song.
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Counting blessings is better than recounting problems
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I was a beach boy, and I believe I learned my songs from the birds of the Brazilian forest.
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Bomb, bomb! Bomb, Iran!
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Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.
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a little moreconversation revealedthat warty bliggens considers himself to bethe center of the saiduniversethe earth exists to grow toadstools for himto sit underthe sun to give him lightby day and the moonand wheeling constellationsto make beautifulthe night for the sake ofwarty bliggens
