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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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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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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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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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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Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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There are who separate the eternal light In forms of man and woman, day and night; They cannot bear that God be essence quite.
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Gsell: What astonishes me, is that your way is so different from that of other sculptors. They prose the model. Instead of that, you wait till a model has instinctively or accidentally taken an Interesting pose, and thon you reproduce It. Instead of your giving orders to the model, the model gives orders to you.
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It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
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It is very nice to have good actors with you.
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If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
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Because 'Friends' is on Netflix, there's a renewed interest from that... People can call me 'Ben' on the street, and I will turn around.
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I believe that music is about making quality things, making quality art, and no matter who you decide to work with, you and that person have to come up with something special, come up with something that is excellent material, so whoever hears it and reviews it will like it.
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If there is one single molecule in this universe running around loose, totally free of God’s sovereignty, then we have no guarantee that a single promise of God will ever be fulfilled.
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When I did 'Parent Trap,' I was ten. I was thrown off by the whole fame thing.
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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.
