John Ashbery Quotes
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
Carice van Houten
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
Kalpana Chawla
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
Radha Mitchell
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
Rachel Platten
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
Nat King Cole
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The song came out to be a gem, just came out to be a really, really interesting rendition of it.
Deborah Cox
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I entered this glam world by luck. I wanted to join dancing classes since I was a child, but my parents never gave me the permission to do so, as no one in our family had ever chosen this path. Fortunately, I got my first break in a reality show easily due to my dance skills, so that way I have been lucky.
Amruta Khanvilkar
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My shooting technique is so poor that if someday I score from outside the box, the keeper has to be banned from football.
Dadá Maravilha
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Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
Brian K. Vaughan
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I'm a sucker for two things: Adam Lambert and songs that start out as emo as a sad episode of 'Felicity' and then drop. That. Beat.
Phoebe Robinson
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery