Muriel Rukeyser Quotes
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Why are we tiptoeing on glass? You can ask me whatever you like; people usually do, and I try to be as honest as I can.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Children don’t require of their parents a past and they find something faintly unbelievable, almost embarrassing, in parental claims to a prior existence.
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I never go looking for a sucker. I look for a Champion and make a sucker of of him.
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A very large part of English middle-class education is devoted to the training of servants...In so far as it is, by definition, the training of upper servants, it includes, of course, the instilling of that kind of confidence which will enable the upper servants to supervise and direct the lower servants.
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The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.
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I really just wanted to write about three brothers. When you do that, though, it gives you this wonderful opportunity to tie together different social milieus, because siblings usually move into different worlds as they grow up.
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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
