Vita Sackville-West Quotes
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
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I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Before the eyes can see, they must be incapable of tears. Before the ear can hear, it must have lost its sensitiveness. Before the voice can speak in the presence of the Masters, it must have lost the power to wound. Before the soul can stand in the presence of the Masters, its feet must be washed in the blood of the heart.
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
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It's fun singing with other people who are really good singers. There's something kind of poignant about braiding a couple vocals.
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The fact that biological, or 'natural' rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
