Mary Oliver Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I try to keep my private life private and the acting stuff separate.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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If I don't go to the gym for a week, I just get thinner and thinner.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.
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John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
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Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
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“I am a school teacher doing life and death sums.”
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Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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The toughest challenge I faced came right at the beginning of my career with 'Blood Knot,' which was trying to convince South African audiences that South African stories also had a place on the stage.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
