Wallace Stevens Quotes
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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I want to state clearly that I am a humanitarian, not an activist. I do not follow any agendas - only that of humanity, not only in Saudi Arabia, but all over the world.
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The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
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It's the best thing if your work is your passion in life. It makes me feel like I'm always on break.
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Old things have strange hungers.
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There are a lot of Chinese-American designers and Chinese designers who have had an impact a little bit on the American market, but I think it's going to be interesting to watch if, over time, somebody can emerge from China who is based in China, and whether they come and show in Paris, like Rei Kawakubo or Yohji Yamamoto did.
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A fictive covering Weaves always glistening from the heart and mind.
