Theodore Roethke Quotes
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends.
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I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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As for the fake teeth, they're officially retired. I haven't really found a need or want to wear them.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.
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Don't add people to your subscriber list just because they once wrote you a note. Or once answered a note you wrote to them. Don't put your address book into your newsletter database. Let your readers sign up.
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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
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No man worth having is true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so.
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Death is not 'an eternal sleep!' Citizens! efface from the tomb that motto, graven by sacrilegious hands, which spreads over all nature a funereal crape, takes from oppressed innocence its support, and affronts the beneficent dispensation of death! Inscribe rather thereon these words: 'Death is the commencement of immortality!'
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Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
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Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line.
