Randall Jarrell Quotes
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My good films were independent and my bad films were not.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'
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I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
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I wouldn't like my fans going through my rubbish.
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I'm a big lover of Shakespeare. In fact, the only plays that I've ever done professionally in New York have been Shakespearian.
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I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
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When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.
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I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.
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In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
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Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.
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Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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I did 'Love Letter' and 'Write Me Back,' and those were fun albums for me to do because they took me back to music I love.
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
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My heart and prayers go out to every individual...
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Expediency therefore concurs with Nature in stamping the seal of its approval upon Regularity of conformation.
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The more we learn, the more we will be confronted with decisions that we've never had to make before about life, about death, about parenting.
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We never step twice into the same Auden.-HERACLITUS
