Ezra Pound Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!
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Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
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Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.
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When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.
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There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.
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The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
