A. A. Milne Quotes
'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come'.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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I've lived in Los Angeles for at least 24 years.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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I never have to this day, because my money is the money I earn.
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The only way you can know someone is through their actions - you can never know what's going on inside them.
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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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'They wanted to come in after the pounds', explained Pooh, 'so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come'.
