Wallace Stevens Quotes
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My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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I have always wanted to open up a brewery slash goat farm. Brew some beer, make some goat cheese, but that's kinda dreamy.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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I've always felt that really good prequels should be original movies.
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Long-distance relationships are hard no matter what. When you don't have face-to-face time, it's just different.
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Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
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Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.
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Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
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Economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality. (page 85)
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He was a man born into a world dominated by scientific materialism. His objection to this materialism was not merely intellectual, or even egotistical (the feeling 'If the world is wholly material, then I can't be very important'). It was the feeling that man is cut off from his inner powers by this superficial attitude.
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I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
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Music has its existence on the borderline between meaning and nonsense. That is why most attempts to attribute a specific meaning to a piece of music seem to be beside the point-even when the attribution is authoritative, even when it is made by the composer himself.
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I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.
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If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.
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I believed in God my whole life, and then strayed away from it in my teen-age years, until recently.
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He tries by a peculiar speech to speak The peculiar potency of the general
