Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes
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I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.
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Joan Crawford is doubtless the best example of the flapper, the girl you see in smart night clubs, gowned to the apex of sophistication, toying iced glasses with a remote, faintly bitter expression, dancing deliciously, laughing a great deal, with wide, hurt eyes. Young things with a talent for living.
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As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
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Governments move armies, but only individuals can move hearts.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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Deep frying a Twinkie makes it healthy, right?
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The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.
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What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
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The tongue of man is a twisty thing, there are plenty of words there of every kind.
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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.
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Not that they were there to have fun—although with Kingsley Martin around, fun was never far from the agenda.
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A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.
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I didn't do my job. These types of games hurt.
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They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.
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I prefer working behind the camera.
