Wallace Stevens Quotes
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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We interpret our agreement with the IMF - our participation in the IMF's system of cooperation - as a borrowing agreement. The IMF sees it as an economic policy agreement. This is not in our interest.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends.
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As a survivor, you learn how to talk fast, cut deals, lie when you have to - perfect training to be a politician, you know?
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Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
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What any woman saw in some particular man was beyond the comprehension of the average intelligent male. It just was so. A woman who could be intelligent about everything else in the world could be a complete fool when it came to some particular man.
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The world is a force not a presence.
