Don Marquis Quotes
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
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The Katrina matter was terrible.
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Funny is funny.
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I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.
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But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
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When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
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I'm a leftie, and I've always believed in doing things on a modest scale.
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Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
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Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much.
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You don't want to hit readers over the head like they're completely incapable of picking up on subtlety.
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Is there a way that we would actually recognize the game of football with fewer tackles and fewer collisions? I'm not sure. But I think that's the direction we're going to have to go. Bigger fields? Fewer players on the field? I think we are ultimately going to have to change some of the major rules of the game.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Firing employees, that's unfortunately a part of doing business.
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What softer voice is hushed over the dead? Athwart what brow is that dark mantle thrown? What form leans sadly o'er the white death - bed, In mockery of monumental stone, The heavy heart heaving without a moan?
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I've always thought that science fiction films set in our world have always rung false.
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Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.
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I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.
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I am not a hypocrite.
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And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
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A hypocrite is a person who - but who isn't?
