Mary Oliver Quotes
Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.Mary Oliver
Quotes to Explore
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
Laura Schlessinger -
American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
Imelda May -
For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
Xavier Rudd -
Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
Carice van Houten -
Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
Dana Brunetti -
Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
Dan Rather
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
Sally Pearson -
You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
Jack Scalia -
You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
Damien Hirst -
In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
Carl Wilson -
I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
Barry Silbert -
Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
Victor Hugo -
How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu -
You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
Gary Johnson -
As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.
Talisa Soto
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As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.
Edgar Winter -
Some people call me Dougie Fresh. I don't know why.
Douglas Booth -
In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
Kate Reardon -
If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.
David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven -
I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.
Jane Pauley -
Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
Mary Oliver