Wallace Stevens Quotes
Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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I take none of that to heart. I don't feel like there's anything that I need to do for anybody else. I want to win bad enough for myself anyway, that nothing anybody can say can make me want to win any more.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
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Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
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Io non piangëa, sì dentro impetrai.
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If you don't have dreams, how do you maneuver reality? Where do you get the ideas to change reality if not from dreams?
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The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
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Reality is the beginning not the end, Naked Alpha, not the hierophant Omega, Of dense investiture, with luminous vassals.
