Alice Notley Quotes
We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
Alice Notley
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
Kate Upton
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
Anthony Burgess
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
Angie Harmon
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Intellectual-property rules are clearly necessary to spur innovation: if every invention could be stolen, or every new drug immediately copied, few people would invest in innovation. But too much protection can strangle competition and can limit what economists call 'incremental innovation' - innovations that build, in some way, on others.
James Surowiecki
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Cities must be fun.
James Rouse
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Miami Beach - that's where I grew up, in a middle-class Jewish family led by my maternal grandfather. Me, my great-grandmother - a Holocaust survivor, who was my roommate - my grandparents, my mom and her brother all shared a four-bedroom house.
Brett Ratner
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Often times, I'm surprised by what I'm writing or what I'm playing, and then that inspires me to keep going with it, so it ends up being a very adventurous process.
Marketa Irglova
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It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.
David Fahrenthold
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I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.
Delta Goodrem
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In the medium and long term. Spain is solvent and able to pay its high debts. In the short-term, we have the capacity to meet our obligations.
Luis de Guindos
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Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.
Ian Bannen
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Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
Bill Frist
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Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
Matt Bomer
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Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.
Joanne Rowling
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I guess that's the big challenge of any art: Do you want to be something for everyone or everything for someone?
John Ross Bowie
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We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
Alice Notley
