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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You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
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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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When I see something, I go for it.
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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
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I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.
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The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.
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Part of our evolutionary heritage is the ability to adapt - species that survive, adapt. Humans adapt by altering their priorities to match evolving values.
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I was never one to paint space, I paint air.
