Mary Oliver Quotes
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Mary Oliver
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When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.
Frances Mayes
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When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
Orhan Pamuk
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You see, I was never a big fan of contemporary movies because they always make actresses and actors look too perfect.
Kate Winslet
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
Dakota Johnson
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
Ralph Bakshi
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I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'
R. J. Cutler
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
Irvine Welsh
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
T. S. Eliot
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We are political animals, as, not without reason, affirmed Aristotle, who perhaps influenced humanity's thinking more than any other ancient philosopher through his almost 200 treatises, according to reports, of which only 31 have been preserved.
Fidel Castro
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Ziggy Marley is the third generation of Marleys I know. I knew his grandmother and his dad - I did a children's album with his grandmother. They're like family.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.
Gabriela Isler
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There has been a major shift in how we live in our homes. Everyone knows the kitchen is the soul of the house. It's more of an open-concept approach.
Candice Olson
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John Parsons: Don’t you think such a theory, such a radical theory, is anti-social?
Margaret Sanger
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I rewatched 'The O.C.,' like, seven times!
Camila Mendes
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
Garry Trudeau
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
Fernando Pessoa
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But you're dead,' said Harry. 'Oh, yes,' said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. 'Then... am I dead too?' 'Ah,' said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. 'That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.
Joanne Rowling
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I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force.
Mary Oliver
