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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After 'Life Unexpected' ended, I wanted to do something that was completely different from Lux and that show. I wanted to be able to keep my fans, but not have them confused about who I was or what my character was.
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The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.
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I was a teacher. I also worked at Harlem Children's Zone. I moved back to Baltimore and opened up an after-school, out-of-school program on the west side and then worked in two public school districts, in Baltimore and Minneapolis.
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The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.
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Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.
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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.
