Alda Merini Quotes
In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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When I was younger, I liked money - the feel of it. I would sit with my dad and count his coins and be like, 'Yeah.' I'd saved £700 by the age of 10. I thought: 'What the hell am I hoarding this for?' So I bought a drum kit.
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You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.
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I am autobiographical in the way a dream transforms experience and emotions all the time.
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I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
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Can I pull out right eyes for Christ and cut off right hands, etc.?
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In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.
