E. B. White Quotes
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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It's always fun to put on bell bottoms and have your butt hanging out and hip huggers.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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Militarism. . . is the chief bulwark of capitalism. When it is that militarism is undermined, capitalism will fail.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
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They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
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A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
