William Cowper Quotes
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
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Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.
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Both in verse and in prose Karl Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody’s hair stand on end; he is always crying: 'But he hasn’t any clothes on!' about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.
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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
