Miguel de Cervantes Quotes
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I'm less crazy and unhappy when I'm writing.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I'm missing work. We didn't have enough money for preschool. I had a panic attack. I couldn't do it. I became one of those horrible foster parents who give the kids back.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.
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A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.'
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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Americans believe cotton is best, but we've invented new fabrics that will change your lifestyle.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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The wussification of America is killing us by teaching us to censor ourselves from what we believe. That's why I want to see political correctness die in my lifetime, but first... I want to watch it suffer.
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Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.
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From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with-and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with-the perceived entitlement.
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I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.
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Love is a power too strong to be overcome by anything but flight.
