Randall Jarrell Quotes
Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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I know who in the family is a great cook. I know where the great recipes are.
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I think Paul Weitz is a really amazing director, obviously with tons of acclaim and stuff, but I still think he is underrated. And I think he's amazing to work with, so I was super lucky.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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I don't know if anybody has moved up the ladder more quickly than I have.
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Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
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J. L. Austin; James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock eds. (1979) Philosophical Papers, 3rd ed. New York: Oxford.
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Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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If we commit ourselves to one person for life this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love which is permanent; into that love which is not possession but participation.
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My 20s were a blizzard of rejection slips.
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My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.
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All deaths are hateful to miserable mortals, but the most pitiable death of all is to starve.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
