Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

• Writing
• Inspiration
• Solitude
• Isolation

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• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• Did anyone ever have a boring dream?

  

  Ralph Hodgson
  • Dream
  • Boring
  • Ever

• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
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• It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • World
  • Great
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• I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Opportunity
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• If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Together
  • Opportunity
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• Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • You
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• Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Freedom
  • Law
  • Stop

• I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Play
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• Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • You
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  • Realize

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
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• I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.

  

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  • Up
  • Growing
  • Know

• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

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• Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.

  

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• I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

  

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  • Life
  • Music

• I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Work
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• In terms of whether I use humor to allow me or my readers to come up for air, I don't think I put that much thought into it. I hate to say it, but I first have to entertain myself before I can think about the reader. I know that's kind of weird and selfish, but I write because it's fun, not because I need to put bread on the table.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Fun

• Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

  

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  • Important
  • Healing

• Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Solitude