Randall Jarrell Quotes
One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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I like to emphasize my eyes because if I do it well enough, then they look very blue.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.
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When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.
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He read about humanity’s age-old racial struggles. Had it really been less than half a millennium since humans contrived gigantic, fatuous lies about each other simply because of pigment shades, and killed millions because they believed their own lies?
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One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!
