Randall Jarrell Quotes
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Washington is designed not to solve problems. Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.'
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For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
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When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
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I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
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I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
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I'm terrified of missing my call time. I'll check my alarm several times before I fall asleep.
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If I cannot add to my own low level of understanding, I could ill afford to try to raise that of others, seeing that it belongs to our Creator and Lord to give much or little.
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There's a hustling, but also a self-centred vibe you can get from people in Delhi.
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Nothing is as sad as seeing a person who used to have power have none.
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Life is wonderful beautiful journey. Every episode of my life is like a dream, and I am at peace and happy with what life has given me.
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I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.
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Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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I have the attention span of a rabbit on cocaine.
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They come transfigured back,Secure from change in their high-hearted ways,Beautiful evermore, and with the raysOf morn on their white Shields of Expectation!
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And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of the Russias to boot, for the rest of his days, On the whole do you think he would have much to spare If he married a woman with nothing to wear?
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...whether they write poems or don’t write poems, poets are best.
