Wallace Stevens Quotes
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.
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I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
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I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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Men outlive their love, but they don’t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.
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Dog rescue remains a gamble, of course. For all the good will, hard work, and noble motivation, nobody can really predict with certainty how a traumatized, dislocated dog will respond in a new environment.
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Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.
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A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
