Randall Jarrell Quotes
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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There will not be a billion-shekel cut to education on my watch.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Starting in the third grade, my dad had me read the 'Denver Post.' I had to discuss two articles with him before dinner, and we would also watch '60 Minutes' together.
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I wouldn't do a film like 'The Dirty Picture.' I have a husband and kids, and I won't be able to do justice to such a role. You need a certain mentality and ease to carry such a character.
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I just love a challenge, and always have, and will do anything to make it interesting. I'll try anything, really, as long as it's a challenge and you can have some fun doing it.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
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Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.
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Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.
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Islamist terrorism is a cancer on Islam, and Muslims themselves must fight it at our side.
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I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.
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The ways we miss our lives are life.
