Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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I have been surfing since I was six years old.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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My silver cord – the link between my body and my spirit – was extremely sensitive. It was what allowed me to sense dreamscapes at a distance. It could also snap me back into my skin.
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When I feel tired and discouraged and I lie down on the sofa, then I think of the simplest thing I can – a piece of string – and I go in it and paint it. That's the way to keep painting – to create something inside that makes you want to recreate it.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
