Randall Jarrell Quotes
The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.
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People appreciate when you make an effort to speak their language.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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We want a money that some government mandarin can't just whisk into existence with a pen stroke.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.
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I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.
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I think the whole aspect of social networking is vulgar and repulsive in a lot of ways. But I also see why it's appealing - I've had that little high you get from posting stuff online. But then you think, 'Did I need to say that?' I've explored that enough to know to stay kind of quiet these days.
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Little things in my past that I really thought were over and done with were still elements of the puzzle that weren't pieced together, and so she helped me do that.
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The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.
