Stevie Smith Quotes
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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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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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.
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We appreciate quiet living. It's not exactly a Hollywood way of life - I couldn't stand living out in Hollywood because you can never escape from the business. All people ever do is talk about movies. At least in New York you can have some other life.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
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I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night the clocks are set ahead.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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If I have any talent at all, it is not for doing but for being.
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Only a dad with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,Bringing little of gold or fameTo show how well he has played the game;But glad in his heart that his own rejoiceTo see him come and to hear his voice.
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Catfights? What catfights? There is a healthy rivalry between me and other actresses but no one’s ever been bitchy. Kareena Kapoor is a cool girl. As for Preity Zinta, we share an on-screen rapport but we were never friends.
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Aunt Agatha, who eats broken bottles and wears barbed wire next to the skin.
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All you have to do is say Fuck Off when the vagina doctor calls.
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Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.
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A lot of parents pack up their troubles and send them off to summer camp.
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
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Dammit, Michael, get out of my room, you pervert!” Could you even be a pervert if you were dead? She supposed you could, if you had a working body half the time. “I swear, I’m going to start taking my clothes off!” The cold spot stayed resolutely put until she got the hem of her T-shirt all the way up to her bra line, and then faded away. “Chicken,” she said, and paced the room, back and forth.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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There are enough churches already, but the world still needs salvation.
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Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
