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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A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.
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Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
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When you're a father, you know exactly where your heart really is. There's no question of it, no doubt. That part of your life has no second guessing.
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An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.
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Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
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The ways we miss our lives are life.
