Sara Teasdale Quotes
With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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One result of An American Family was that I became a gay role model.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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I want to release six songs, let people listen to those, let them chill for a second, do a tour, release another six songs, chill for a second and then take my favorite four, put them on the album, and add some more.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you. (Hays translation)
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It is the will of the American people that we have a right to protect our flag and this can only be accomplished by passing a Constitutional amendment.
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The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
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When that hit the fan ... it was like an earthquake.
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I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like.
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I am not interested in the support of anybody who stands for any form of prejudice as to anybody's race or religion. . . . I have no place in my philosophy for such beliefs.
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When I was younger, I did what I now call 'extreme singing.' I could do this thing where I would sing really high. I can't really do that anymore, at my age. My voice has shifted. It's changed.
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'Why don't we change our clothes and watch TV or something over at your house?' He felt like hugging her. 'I'll make us some coffee,' he said joyfully. 'Yuk,' she said smiling and began to run for the old Perkins place, that beautiful, graceful run of hers that neither mud nor water could defeat.
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
