Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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I've never judged anybody by how they look or how they dress. I basically judge them on their character. And that's how I lead my own life.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Mother had committed me for life. This is where I felt betrayed the most.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
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May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
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Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
