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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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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They were a group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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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.
