C.P. Cavafy Quotes
On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.C.P. Cavafy
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
Vaughn Monroe -
I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
Warren Ellis -
All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
Pat Nixon -
As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne -
Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
Ingmar Bergman
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox -
Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
Nate Berkus -
I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
Patrick Wang -
As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
G. Willow Wilson -
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
Patrick deWitt
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
Samira Wiley -
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg -
I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell Berry -
I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi -
There are a thousand ways to play any role.
Val Kilmer -
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
Kate Bush
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I think I managed to trick people a little bit into thinking I'm more arty by making creative, artistic, visual work and applying it to commercial music. Maybe. I don't know.
Sia LSD -
We will continue to look for points of coinciding
Igor Ivanov -
For as long as I can remember, we've been having debates about the foreign policy disasters and seemingly unsolvable problems around the world. Dinner conversations are replayed over generations - nothing seems to get better, and in some aspects, it seems dramatically worse, and that is especially true for women.
Dana Perino -
I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.
Kevin Macdonald -
On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created for you.
C.P. Cavafy