Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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If we all band together against extremism and spend a few minutes a day using tools that have been proven to work, we can make a big difference in defending those values we share as Americans.
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I just want to swing a few lefts and a few rights for a couple of hundred mill in peace.
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Another way to lose control is to ignore something when you should address it.
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I didn't grow up watching movies and thinking, 'Oh, I wanna be in those!'
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
