Sara Teasdale Quotes
For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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As most actors/actresses, I don't like to watch my own movies, either, and I never look at the dailys while filming.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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I have a love for boxing.
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My father is very dry and very quick-witted, and my mother is very silly. It was the perfect combination because I got an education in physical and verbal comedy.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils that's freshly picked from the field.
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Women are the half of the engine of our societies; they are half of the engines of our economies.
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At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.
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My wife is pretty geeky and will occasionally quote 'Anchorman' at me.
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If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
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Without getting too spiritual, God has done so much for me; the least I can do is drink Kiddush wine on a Friday night.
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For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.
