Hamlin Garland Quotes
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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We shred every day.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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L.A. makes you feel ugly.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
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I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on reality.
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
