Wallace Stevens Quotes
Of these beginnings, gay and green, propose The suitable amours. Time will write them down.
Quotes to Explore
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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It makes no difference who or what you are, old or young, black or white, pagan, Jew, or Christian, I want to love you all and be loved by you all, and I mean to have your love.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.
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Make portraits of people in familiar and typical positions, above all give their faces the same choice of expression one gives their bodies. Thus if laughter is typical for a person, make him laugh – there are, naturally, feelings that one cannot render…
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I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.
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My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.
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I'm so thankful for that struggling period. That time is really great where you have no idea what's going to happen.
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I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.
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Of these beginnings, gay and green, propose The suitable amours. Time will write them down.
