Don Marquis Quotes
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
Quotes to Explore
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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My perspective is cultural and world-based. It's always been a global perspective.
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For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
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I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.
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I look upon the whole world as my fatherland, and every war has to me the horror of a family feud.
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Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.
