William Wordsworth Quotes
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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That's hot.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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If you like gold, there are many reasons you should like Bitcoin.
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I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
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Take the sweet poetry of life away, and what remains behind?
