Sara Teasdale Quotes
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Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon, though.
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I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.
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Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
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I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.
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My mother - it's not one of those waxing-poetic kind of things - she literally worked two or three jobs most of her life. So I personally experienced that, even though I had these great friends and associations who had unlimited amounts of money. That juxtaposition was an interesting one.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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Jazz I regard as an American folk music; not the only one, but a very powerful one which is probably in the blood and feeling of the American people more than any other style of folk music.
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I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.
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The surest means of not losing your mind on the spot: remembering that everything is unreal, and will remain so...
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A lot of my own problems are because I'm so financially irresponsible. I'm so stupid when it comes to money. And I'm ashamed of it.
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The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
