Ada Limon Quotes
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That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I believe in content, and I go accordingly.
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Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.
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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.
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I do a lot of dry shampoo. My hair just works better when it's not as clean!
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As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
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As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.
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I lost over 100 pounds, so I'm even angrier than ever. I don't stuff my feelings anymore with food. Skinny girls are funny.
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Cable series have more time to focus on characters, and a structure that allows for a development in character as you go along. Network shows have a pressure of time and space that is completely different.
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Of the times that I've been able to overcome a fear, it's been by making it something that I can understand, that I can hold on to - just something that's more tangible.
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Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.
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When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
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I think one of the greatest joys I have now in my career and in my profession is to be playing at an age where I can appreciate it more than I used to... It's a whole different lens you look through the older you get.
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Before I came out, I had a lot of anger. For years people would ask, 'How are you doing?' and I'd say, 'Good, fine.' It's show business, and that's what you have to show.
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I clean my own utensils, my house and I even travel alone. I don't know what the life of a superstar is like.
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No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
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Quite many people have ugly hands, and I thought I should not feel ashamed about it.
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
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If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.
