Mary Oliver Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
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Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.
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We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I do seem to have a lot of family secrets in my novels. I guess I'm one of those writers who is often writing about the same sort of themes, but taking different angles on them.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.
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We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
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Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.
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My favorite actresses are Cameron Diaz, Julia Roberts and Julie Andrews.
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I made friends with a boy who was a communist when I was 13 and that broadened my political views, but it also brought me into conflict with my father who was very Right-wing.
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My songs grow on people - like warts.
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When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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When I saw the movie, I said, I wish I had heard the music. I would have ridden the horse differently.
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Among the swans there is none called the least, or the greatest.
