James Merrill Quotes
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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I learned from making a few of these low-budget videos early on that the best way to go about doing it is just to keep it honest and real.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.
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I'm an ordinary person under extraordinary circumstances.
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I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that's what's sort of exciting about it.
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
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It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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In Morocco, for a woman to earn her own living is the essential concern.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
Chaka Fattah -
Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.
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He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
