Robert Frost Quotes
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Let thy step be slow and steady, that thou stumble not.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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Rose's own experience was that goodness, the state of being good, was only reached with difficulty and pain. It took a long time to get to it; in fact one never did get to it, or, if for a flashing instant one did, it was only for a flashing instant. Desperate perseverance was needed to struggle along its path, and all the way was dotted with doubts.
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When I enter a club and hear my song being played, I feel like it's not really my song and when I see people dancing to my song, I feel like jumping up on stage and treating them to drinks.
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Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that can save them is the speaking tone of voice somehow entangled in the words and fastened to the page for the ear of the imagination. That is all that can save poetry from sing-song, all that can save prose from itself.
