Theodore Roethke Quotes
Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux.
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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.
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To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.
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All true languageis incomprehensible,Like the chatterof a beggar’s teeth.
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A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
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Long live the weeds that overwhelm My narrow vegetable realm! The bitter rock, the barren soil That force the son of man to toil; All things unholy, marred by curse, The ugly of the universe.
