Sara Teasdale Quotes
When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
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Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
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I'm learning slowly to not be as much of a control freak. I can't afford to be all the time, but I'm getting better at communicating. Delegating parts of my vision for other people to execute has made it an easier process for knowing what I want, and what people can handle, and what I should probably save for myself.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
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Because I've done a lot of theater, I know what power is and how megalomaniacs are, since I've certainly played some.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
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What do we lose without wild animal acts at the circus? Absolutely nothing, except the opportunity to be haunted and heartbroken.
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The framers of the constitution knew human nature as well as we do. They too had lived in dangerous days; they too knew the suffocating influence of orthodoxy and standardized thought. They weighed the compulsions for restrained speech and thought against the abuses of liberty. They chose liberty.
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Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.
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I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
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My duty as a teacher is to train, educate future programmers.
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When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now
