Theodore Roethke Quotes
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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There certainly is such a thing as screen chemistry, although I don't believe you find it frequently.
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I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.
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My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it.
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I've never had an issue with studios. I believe in them as true creative partners in the process.
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Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
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I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.
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Stick up for what you believe in and never, ever feel that you can't say something or speak your mind. I think that would be the best advice. Be strong. Be confident. That's really all you need.
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I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?
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Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
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I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.
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I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love.
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I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.
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Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.
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Minks are mean little critters. Vicous, horrible little animals who eat their own. They're not beavers. I wouldn't wear beavers. I'd rather have a mink coat made of mean little critters that are killed in a very nice way and treated nicely for their short, mean lives so that I could keep warm.
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Not to be able to move around or do things without thinking - that's tough. I may end up that way, but if I do, I hope to hell my intellect will take over, and I'll find some kind of joy and a way to contribute.
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As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
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You must believe a poem is a holy thing, a good poem, that is.
