Robert Frost Quotes
I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.
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Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram.
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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
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People make great films. I just don't have the eyes to watch them.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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My father was a lorry driver, very rarely at home. The house was run by my mother, and because there were 10 or so kids, there was no time for individual attention. It was about survival. It was about where the next meal was coming from.
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I came from a very intellectual neighborhood. When we played cowboys and Indians as kids, I had to be Gandhi.
