Helen Keller Quotes
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It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it out as you go along.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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I was the 'no one understands me' teenager. But I think truly I've realized now that I didn't understand a thing myself. So I just had some livin' to do.
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It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
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There are no words to describe my feelings for Errol Flynn.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath.
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Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.
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My Daddy liked physical fitness and wanted me to be a prizefighter.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
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A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows.
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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
