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 was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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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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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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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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I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.
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Each one of us continues to carry the heart of each self we've ever been, at every stage along the way, and a chaos of everything good and rotten. And we have to carry this weight all alone, through each day that we live. We try to be as nice as we can to the people we love, but we alone support the weight of ourselves.
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I will not negotiate with the undead!
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I've had a great love for Al Pacino's work since I first saw him on the stage doing 'The Indian Wants the Bronx' in the early '70s. His work is remarkable. He's the real thing.
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She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.
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The world is a force not a presence.
