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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It's a pretty big shadow. It gives me lots of room to spread myself.
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We Americans are world leaders and we must lead by example - particularly in times that require careful deliberation before any precipitous action - lest we fail to walk in the shoes of those we might injure.
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The best advice for anyone trying to grow on social media is to be real and to be consistent. People will connect more with you if you stay true to yourself and who you are.
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I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University.
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The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality.
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Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
