E. Nesbit Quotes
It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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My mum's really short so she always wears really tall heels, and I used to steal them and now it's just a part of my everyday life.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life. I try to keep that as much in balance with work as I can.
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I have always believed that resistance against repression and violence is possible without relying on similar repression and violence. I have always believed that human civilization is the fruit of the effort of both women and men.
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We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.
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He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.
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In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Couldn't I just be a bit loony instead of gifted?
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It is not, Dear, because I am alone, For I am lonelier when the rest are near, But that my place against your heart has grown Too dear to dream of when you are not here.
