Stevie Smith Quotes
I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
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ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.
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Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.
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The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.
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And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.
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Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line
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As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.
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There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.
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A violent scene is art, as much as a sex scene is art. For me, all the scenes were a challenge.
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Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
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I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
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Acting is bad acting if the actor himself gets emotional in the act of making the audience cry. The object is to make the audience cry, but not cry yourself. The emotion has to be inside the actor, not outside. If you stand there weeping and wailing, all your emotions will go down your shirt and nothing will go out to your audience. Audience control is really about the actor
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I spit when I talk, I'll fuck anything that walks. When I was little, I used to get so hungry I would throw fits. How you gonna breast-feed me, ma, you ain't got no tits!
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I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.
