Mary Oliver Quotes
Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Lo - a black line of birds in wavering threadBore him the greetings of the deathless dead!
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What's life without a spice of stupidity.
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Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.
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I wasn't so interested in being paid. I wanted to be heard. That's why I'm broke.
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Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.
