e. e. cummings Quotes
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.
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Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
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You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.
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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.
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You definitely have to play real games and, through trial and error, get a feel for the game.
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The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
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The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.
