Wallace Stevens Quotes
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
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I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.
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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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There is no ethnic cleansing in Bahrain, no mass genocide, no policy of killing innocent people.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I write novels and other things.
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I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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When I was growing up, it was Clint Eastwood, it was Harrison Ford and Steve McQueen - these guys were tough. They were leading men, but they were also tough and physical.
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There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
