Randall Jarrell Quotes
We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
Quotes to Explore
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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I'm more of a 5 Live man. But I might listen to a bit of Coldplay or The Smiths.
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.
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If you told me I could only do one thing, I would choose live concerts.
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Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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The Hoosier way is quite simple - we work hard, and we live within our means.
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From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.
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I don't wear bright orange clothes or leopard skin boots, but it was really good fun to play someone that does and have an excuse too!
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We have moved from an age in which government leaders sought to do what was best for the people to one in which the political leadership is convinced it knows what is best for the people, whether they like it or not.
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.
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I started at a very early age in this business and I'm sure most of you have read stories about people who have started as children and ended up in very difficult lives and bad consequences.
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We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil. (Actually, of course, a writer may be just as sentimental in laying undue emphasis on sexual crimes as on dying mothers: sentimental, like scientific, is an adjective that relates to method, not to matter.)
