Theodore Roethke Quotes
When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
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Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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For me, I always try to make it to the final.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.
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I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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China's environmental conundrums will not be solved by changes within government alone. New mechanisms are needed to allow the communities which may be affected by a given plan, and citizens concerned about the environment, to join in.
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Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply - I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
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I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish characters, that's my instinct.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.
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As an actor, you're supposed to take jobs that will challenge you or force fans to see you in a different light. By the '90s, I wasn't really an actor anymore. I was someone who went on the road with these gigantic concerts.
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When I go mad, I call my friends by phone: I am afraid they might think they're alone.
