Orson F. Whitney Quotes
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I'm convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They're not that difficult, truly.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.
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Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
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You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
