Walt Whitman Quotes
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I'm very content.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use.
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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Acting is a tough business, but if you really want to do it, you should go full force.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
