Theodore Roethke Quotes
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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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There is always pressure in football.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
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Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
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Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.
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I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.
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I just saw 'Men, Women & Children' last night, and it's a devastating movie in a lot of ways, but it's so well done, so well acted.
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My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.
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They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
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There are servers, and there are people that are served. There's something contradictory about that in a democracy, certainly.
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Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they're meant to be.
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Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
