Wallace Stevens Quotes
The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
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I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'
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I won't join another band again.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple.
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It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
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Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.
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We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.
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Ten years ago, TV cookery shows were about a man or a woman following recipes. Now, it's all about journeys and campaigns and less about the actual chopping and dicing. That's what I'd like to do with magic.
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Despite what people think, I was such a rule follower at school.
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Reaching too deep into something not meant for you is full of pain. Figure out what you can have and work on that
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That's the nature of my [stand-up] act: black man with a white baby.
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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
