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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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
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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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'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
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But where do we find what's lasting? Where do the deathless things hide?
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
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There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.
