Fairfield Porter Quotes
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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I love everything John Carpenter's ever done.
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When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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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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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I get why people want to come see me play guitar, but I still don't understand why people want to interview me.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.
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I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'
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Life is too short to dust every week.
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Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.
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The English, a spirited nation, claim the empire of the sea; the French, a calmer nation, claim that of the air.
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A religious creed differs from a scientific theory in claiming to embody eternal and absolutely certain truth, whereas science is always tentative, expecting that modification in its present theories will sooner or later be found necessary, and aware that its method is one which is logically incapable of arriving at a complete and final demonstration.
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I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
