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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.
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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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I didn't choose solitude.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wouldn't do it. I think Beyonce Knowles got a couple of million for a private show but I would be happy to turn it down.
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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.
