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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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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I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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I went to NYU to study liberal arts.
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I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.
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Sometimes doing the forbidden can be nice.
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I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.
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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.
