William Ernest Henley Quotes
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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Nobody is gonna love you like you. You're gonna be your best salesman.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.
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He that is jealous is not in love.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.
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I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.
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Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.
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I've been a big fan of Joe Hill ever since his first novel, 'Heart-Shaped Box.'
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Thou art Justice - ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England - thou Shield'st alike the high and low.
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The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.
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I've overcome physical and mental brutality - and fought back.
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For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
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In my work, there's a tremendous amount of rejection and waves of fertile and fallow times.
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The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But I love him best of all. For his song is all the joy of life, And we in the mad spring weather, We two have listened till he sang Our hearts and lips together.
