Mary Oliver Quotes
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I've lost fights before where I'm landing more punches and I'm moving away from the guy. So, the way that they score things at the end doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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I got a brother who calls me Hollywood. Sisters kind of keep their distance. Even my mom is kind of like ahhh with me. Yeah dude, it really sucks. And I wish things were different. Unfortunately, they don't understand everything I go through on a day to day basis to be able to maintain what I'm doing.
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There's a long history of presidents coming in, saying they're gonna to take on the bureaucracy. What they really mean is they're gonna try to shift the emphasis of where those bureaucrats are gonna work and how they're gonna spend their time towards achieving objectives that presidents want to achieve.
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My mother was a very sweet soul and a beautiful person, but she had a lot of fear.
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You can fool a lot of yourself but you can't fool the soul.
