William Wordsworth Quotes
I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I have a house in the Connecticut countryside where you'll always find me, summer or winter.
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Let's just say I haven't been keeping up the Gary Barlow persona; I've let loose.
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I've always wanted to make a record.
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I was always just into my music and maybe into trying to save the world a little bit. I never really thought I'd have a hit record or anything like that. I was prepared to travel around all over the country, kind of like a Johnny Appleseed, and sing.
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I travelled among unknown men, In lands beyond the sea; Nor England! did I know till then What love I bore to thee.
