Theodore Roethke Quotes

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Theodore Roethke

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• I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

  

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• I respect music, I do. I love it.

  

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• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

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• The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

  

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• Home is where your rump rests.

  

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• We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

  

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• I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

  

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• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

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• Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.

  

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• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

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• In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

  

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• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

  

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• I don't spend much time on Twitter. I joined because I found it funny.

  

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• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

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• I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.

  

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• I've been acting since I was five, and I hope it's something I can do forever. I love it.

  

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• Man's life? A candle in the wind, hoar-frost on stone.

  

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• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

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• Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

  

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• Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.

  

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• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Journey
  • Walking
  • Wind