Walt Whitman Quotes
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
Quotes to Explore
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
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When I'm not working, I like to play golf.
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I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.
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I don't get sick much because in the U.S. I always eat with my fingers, you know, to get used to the bacteria.
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My existence was never a Francis Ford Coppola existence.
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All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
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My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
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Generally speaking, the Smritikars never care to explain the why and the how of their dogmas.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.
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I find life so shocking in general. Everything about it surprises me.
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Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.
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Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.
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If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?
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The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
