Mary Oliver Quotes
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and to ensure I am being mooted by people who know the Supreme Court well and are coming to the case fresh.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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What's the right way to think about the distribution part of Steam? You need to worry about viruses and people trying to publish other people's content, but the underlying thing is to eliminate that barrier between people who create stuff and people who want to have access to it.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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My mom used to model when she was younger, before she went to law school, and I think she thought it was pretty cool. I think my parents saw that acting ultimately made me happy, even though it was a rough ride for a little bit.
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Music was the only voice of cinema for a very long time before we had sound; it's organically linked to cinema itself.
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I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.
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I learned from a longtime farmer that pigs enjoy soothing music.
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I was a Yankee fan until 1981. That was the year the Yankees were two up on the Dodgers and lost four straight. And George Steinbrenner apologized to the city.
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I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
