Sylvia Sidney Quotes
Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.
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I'm very happy being attorney general.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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I think the physical comedy in action sequences is fantastic. Like, '21 Jump Street' did a great job with that.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.
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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.
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When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the same as another to him. But in none of them could he be quiet. But the street ran on in its moods and phases, always empty: he might have seen himself as in numberless avatars, in silence, doomed with motion, driven by the courage of flagged and spurred despair; by the despair of courage whose opportunities had to be flagged and spurred.
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Loneliness is a person’s own fault. If you’re lonely it means you have no resources within yourself.
