Joyce Kilmer Quotes
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
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We have been fortunate enough to do something that has always been out of the mainstream and yet have an audience for what we do.
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I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career.
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I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.
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'A Tale of Two Gardens'
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You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
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I can't just say yes to a movie. I have to be really passionate about it.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
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There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
