Randall Jarrell Quotes
The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I think movie and television companies are in the business of making money, and if you have a franchise, eventually you'll want to exploit that franchise and revisit it. So I assume at some point someone will do another story in the 'Lost' world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty and freedom?' You know, that's baloney. More than 2 million Americans are behind bars now. Communist China has four times the population and they have 1.5 million people behind bars.
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You don't have to stick with these recipes. They're guides. As I say, they're a way in. Have fun with them. It's an easier way to cook in a busy life, once you get the hang of it.
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Who is that person that comes around and says, 'You are OK, you are worthy, you are special?' That makes all the difference in the world for many of us. Those are the people we appreciate the most.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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The most sought-after candidates in the world today by companies like mine are people who make computer software - there's a shortage of talent.
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The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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We live in a rainbow of chaos.
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Nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent civilis volnera dextrae.
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With usenet gone, we just don't teach our kids entertainment-level hyperbole any more.
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As an actor, you're trained to do the right thing, be politically correct, say your lines, say the right thing about the people you're working with.
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Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
