William Wordsworth Quotes
Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
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Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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When Matisse died, he left me his Odalisques 'as a legacy', he proclaimed.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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I was always taught, even as a kid, playing against grown men, you get better.
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The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.
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Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
