William Ellery Channing Quotes
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.
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I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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This Martina Navratilova is a real champion, but with the proper training, I can make miracles happen.
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Eleanor Roosevelt loved to write. She was a wonderful child writer. I mean, she wrote beautiful essays and stories as a child. And Marie Souvestre really appreciated Eleanor Roosevelt's talents and encouraged her talents. Also, she spoke perfect French. She grew up speaking French. She's now at a french-speaking school where, you know, girls are coming from all over the world. Not everybody speaks French.
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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
