Randall Jarrell Quotes
Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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Most writers battle with periods of being blocked; it's almost an occupational hazard. But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, 'A Passage to India,' E. M. Forster got stuck for nine years.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
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To-day we have fewer dogmas, but I think that we have stronger principles. By a dogma I mean a deduction from facts which is only valid under certain conditions, and which becomes untrue if those conditions change. By a principle I mean something that is an eternal and universal truth.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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Bin Laden is dead. Al-Qaida eventually will die. But the model that al-Qaida has created of an asymmetric terror group that has enormous consequences in the world well beyond the size of the group, that's going to endure. Other groups are going to try to follow that model.
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Goethe said, 'The author whom a lexicon can keep up with is worth nothing'; Somerset Maugham says that the finest compliment he ever received was a letter in which one of his readers said: 'I read your novel without having to look up a single word in the dictionary.' These writers, plainly, lived in different worlds.
