William Shakespeare Quotes
Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.
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Sometimes at night I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with stars. I was alive then.
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My mum thinks I'm amazing at everything. That unconditional love is just the most precious thing you can have.
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Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather.
