William H. Gass Quotes
My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I want to give a child a life who wouldn't be given a life. I want a child that nobody else wants.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
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I dare to do things - that's how I survive.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.
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Forensic science offers great potential, as it draws on almost every discipline and, in doing so, creates widespread opportunity for innovation.
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It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?
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My face is muffled in my mother's clothing. Her rhinestones injure me. See: my feet are going. Fish flee the forefinger of my aunt. The sun streams over the geraniums. What has this to do with what I feel, with what I am.
