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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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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.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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With Donald Trump as president and Republicans in control of Congress, our healthcare is under attack.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'Mojave' is a very wild, throwback film with these two dudes going after each other.
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Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
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Even my closest friend said I was finished, but I think I may be a little different from the others.
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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.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
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I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.
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I am a total believer of making the process a good time - make it memorable, have some fun, try to shoot high in your quality and then don't get crazy, see what happens.
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At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
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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.
