Robert Frost Quotes
I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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The Polish freedom movement of 1968 lost its confrontation with police violence; the Prague Spring was crushed by the armies of five Warsaw Pact members. But in both countries, 1968 gave birth to a new political consciousness.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I need to make things mine. It annoys me to buy something that is imposed on me. When I have a suit made, I go to the Sicilian tailor Alessandro Martorana in Turin. I like shorter jacket sleeves and often fold the cuffs up. It's more modern that way.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
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People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
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It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.
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I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
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She was just staring; and her face, as usual, was the face of a patient and disappointed Madonna.
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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
