Adam Mickiewicz Quotes
My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
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I consider myself a progressive. I have a passion for people who work. To me, this is about forward looking versus backward looking. Ideological gradations are the wrong way to look at it.
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I was like, 'Josh Tillman, you are not a songwriter. You are an ape. Stop thinking of yourself as a songwriter.'
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As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
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You may stifle your creativity by learning too much about processes that should be spontaneous and automatic.
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It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the 'cooler,' and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
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I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
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Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline?
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The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning. The opposite of a Greek drama. Act one: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act two: Greed and hypocrisy leading to a genocidal world war, a boom, a crash, totalitarianism. Act three: Greed and hypocrisy … I don't dare continue.
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Natura d'ogni cosa più possente.
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Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.
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I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.
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The hardest part of writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was probably the sheer amount of iambic pentameter and tiptoeing around certain scenes I knew would be hot-button issues for 'Star Wars' fans.
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The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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My heart stopped, my breast frozen, my lips and eyes barred. Still in the world, but not of the world. Here, yet already departed.
