Theodore Roethke Quotes
In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.
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Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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God had answered her prayer, not with the thing she asked for, but rather the thing she wanted most in her heart.
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The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.
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Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory. … Let us not disillusion anyone by bringing too much reality into the dream.
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To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.
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My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.
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I believe that I'm a special player. I think people love the way I just try to play. I don't try to impress anyone when I'm playing or anything. I just have a feel for the game.
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The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.
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I'm a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday.
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'The Babadook,' written and directed by a woman, is a gorgeously told female-focused story of grief, longing, loneliness, and what mourning can become.
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I think there's a reason why some companies have such dismal records. It's not because they're clueless; it's because they systematically don't want to hire women.
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Acting is like a high wire act. Your margin for error is very slim.
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'Milk' doesn't imply that all gay men who stayed in the closet were cowards.
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We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.
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The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.
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I advocate the use of force to rescue Terri Schiavo from being starved to death. I further advocate the killing of anyone who interferes with such rescue.
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I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
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As truly as the mystic, the scientist is following a light; and it is not a false or an inferior light.
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In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
