Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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I love speaking at schools. That's always my favorite because I wish I'd had someone who was like me come speak at my school.
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It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Little boys have amazing minds.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.
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I goggled. Her words did not appear to make sense. They seemed the mere aimless vapouring of an aunt who has been sitting out in the sun without a hat.
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They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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I sucked in school.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.
