Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
Gareth Gates -
Working with special needs children is hard.
Laura Linney -
It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
Rachel McAdams -
I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.
Barry Hannah -
For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.
Xavier Dolan -
Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
Malorie Blackman
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
Nanette Lepore -
When you're out grocery shopping for your family, maybe you can put a can of cat or dog food in your cart and bring it to an animal relief center.
Rachael Ray -
The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
Walter Savage Landor -
People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
Kapil Dev -
No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.
Abraham Lincoln -
I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
Forest Whitaker
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
Harmony Korine -
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens -
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
Dan Savage -
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Pablo Picasso -
I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
Barbara Palvin -
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
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In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.
Jeb Hensarling -
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
Edna O'Brien -
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.
Charles Baudelaire -
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay