Stevie Smith Quotes
My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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The most important tool of my trade was a mirror.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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Once the federal dust settles, whether there is little to spend or a lot, education must continue to be our top priority. We can afford nothing less.
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Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.
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When you come out of the theatre and you don't even talk about that film or remember it, then it disappoints me.
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If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll find a rock, a stick, or a piece of wood - and believe me, it's gonna be a brawl.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
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I don't want it good. I want it Tuesday.
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Fear created the first gods in the world.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.
