Wallace Stevens Quotes
Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I have to remind myself when I'm on a job and I'm feeling a lull in attitude or confidence or whatever, I'm there for a reason. I have to constantly remind myself of these almost corny Pinterest mantras, like 'You are worthy.'
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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I just love playing in major championships.
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To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
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Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
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I've heard my work called 'bold' and 'graffiti-like,' but for me it is always instinctual. I start with a shape or a colour and go from there.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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It is disconcerting to sit with your parent and find you're turning over your future to your government, which can't manage their money.
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You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.
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When I came on the scene, there was The Nualas, who were doing character comedy, but there weren't any other women doing stand-up because Michelle Read had gone more into theatre.
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I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.
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Bourguiba on Ramadan's effect on Tunisia" stagnation, weakness and decadence
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Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.
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Not to be realized because not to Be seen, not to be loved nor hated because Not to be realized.
