Stevie Smith Quotes
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
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Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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Holding individuals accountable for corporate wrongdoing isn't ideological; it's good law enforcement.
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A general definition of civilization: a civilized society is exhibiting the five qualities of truth, beauty, adventure, art, peace.
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.
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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.
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If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
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Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.
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Practically every day, there is a story in the newspapers about a new breakthrough drug on Parkinson's.
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
