Walt Whitman Quotes

I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

Walt Whitman

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• I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, and loved going to visit my mom on-set. But she wanted me to have a normal childhood, so I wasn't really allowed to pursue acting till I got older.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Mom
  • Childhood
  • Acting

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Career
  • Lucky
  • Critics

• The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Connection
  • Readers
  • Rookie

• I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Remember

• I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Children
  • Small
  • Irritating

• The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Country
  • Wonderful
  • Royalty

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Control
  • Trump
  • Health care

• The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Doubt
  • Walking
  • Innocence

• I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Family
  • School
  • Culture

• It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Up
  • Different
  • Opportunity

• As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Work
  • Control
  • Model

• 'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Film
  • WIld
  • Throwback

• Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Favorite
  • Written
  • Here

• Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• Of course, I have to consider that I've written a lot of prose, but I do in my heart think of myself as being originally, and still primarily, a poet.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Myself

• Sometimes you have to understand your place.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Sometimes
  • Understand

• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Relationship
  • Taken
  • Comfort

• Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Life
  • She
  • Surprise

• People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Failure

• One of my favorite quotes of hers is: “If I hadn’t been born a woman, I’d have definitely been a drag queen.” But at the core, she is very authentic.

  

  Amy Miller
  • Favorite
  • Authentic
  • Quotes

• I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, And accrue what I hear into myself...and let sound contribute toward me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Sound
  • I Think
  • Listen