Wallace Stevens Quotes
The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
Quotes to Explore
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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When it comes to cooking pasta, the first essential is to make sure you have a big enough pot: it needs room to roll in the water while cooking.
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My idea of success is not Oscars. Am I glad I have that little trinket? Yes, I am. But it depends on how you define success. The minute I got my first professional cheque from Joel Schumacher, I was successful. Somebody's paying me to act!
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I've done more than 70 auditions in about four years. Early on, it was hard for me because I'd become so attached to these characters, and then you'd be told, 'No.' I'd get very upset when I was younger. But now it comes with the territory.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
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I love Austin for vintage shopping, and there are some really good places in L.A., too.
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Sometimes it's not even a role that's specifically written for a woman. It could be a role written for a white man or Asian man, or Latino. If it's something that I feel I could do well, I go after it. Especially if it's nothing that has to be gender or race specific, I'm all over it.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interesting perks has become a necessity, not a nice-to-have.
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Hitler killed five million Jews. It is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.
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Human nature is accused of much more selfishness than it really has ; a thousand kindly emotions break in upon and redeem our daily and interested life.
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Politicians generally act as if there is no cost to reconnecting with voters by building new New Deals. But the whole exercise of writing law out of New Deal nostalgia is a form of national narcissism. Call it New Deal narcissism.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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There's always two sides to the coin if you have the patience to see.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
