Walt Whitman Quotes
My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.
Quotes to Explore
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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.
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Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight as well as reading my mother's medical and nursing books. I suspect I was born with a boundless curiosity, and this was encouraged through my childhood.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.
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I always loved the idea that a photograph was a memory frozen in time.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I have learned that any fool can write a bad ad, but that it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.
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I have always been fascinated with romance and the fact that it is so effortless when we first fall in love but how it then becomes a conscious effort to stay creative and connected. Thats why I always say, 'Get wise: keep your romance alive.'
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My rule has been, so far as I could have any rule (I could have no cast-iron rule) - my rule has been, to write what I have to say the best way I can - then lay it aside - taking it up again after some time and reading it afresh - the mind new to it. If there's no jar in the new reading, well and good - that's sufficient for me.
