Ezra Pound Quotes
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
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You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse
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When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
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Your mission, your purpose and your destiny will all be tied to one thing – your gift.
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She had to be a very strong woman to support her husband through all those ups and downs.
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You feel pretty gross when you are first pregnant. You don't feel cute, you feel disgusting. You're getting fat. It was hard.
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I think the first thing I did was several scenes from Romeo and Juliet.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
