Wallace Stevens Quotes
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
Quotes to Explore
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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When I read, I take notes and underline things. So reading is a vigorous process for me, but I read in bed. My poor husband is trying to go to sleep, and I'm reaching over him to get the Post-it notes.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they'd be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel.
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Excellence always sells.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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As long as I know my head's in the right place, my feet are on the ground, I think I'll be fine.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.
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I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.
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Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him? Something very easy-that he live in accordance with his own nature.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
