Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If I go into the place in myself that is love, and you go into the place in yourself that is love, we are together in love. Then you and I are truly in love, the state of being love. That's the entrance to Oneness. That's the space I entered when I met my guru.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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Anyone fighting for freedom does not want to totally lose their freedom.
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One good analogy is worth three hours discussion.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I had my nose done when I was 16 years old, and I'll be honest: it did change my life.
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There’s a reason why the French are on their fifth republic, and we are on our first, and that’s because we did not have a worship of reason at the beginning of the Founding as the French did, and then discovered that the purity, the Rousseauian idea is simply not one for the real world, or not one that avoids the guillotine...
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Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.
