Robert Frost Quotes
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them.
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Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.
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I always felt an outsider.
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For the future, I would suggest avoiding subjects of too vast a scale. It would be useful to make out a list of fundamental questions on the matter to be dealt with, and discuss only those.
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I've always straddled a weird line - there's a lot of mainstream stuff that I love. At the same, I still feel like an outsider. I'm the outsider who's on the inside.
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With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.
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I love Paul Rudd.
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The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
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Like so many substantial citizens of America, he had married young and kept on marrying, springing from blonde to blonde like the chamois of the Alps leaping from crag to crag.
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Rhyme is the native condition of lyric verse in English; a rhymeless lyric is a maimed thing.
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More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
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I just don't plan things. I live a month at a time.
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I think more important than law is the hearts of people.
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I write in character a lot.
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But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up.
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When you wait to the last minute, you rush to get things done, and the closer you get to the deadline, the less options you have.
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A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.
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What I have learned from studying counterfactual history is that the law of unintended consequences always kicks in no matter how secure you are in your plan. We have to live with the historical record as it is, like it or not.
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You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
