Randall Jarrell Quotes
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Fiction can either be a mirror reflecting you back to yourself or it can be a clean pane of glass looking on the outside.
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Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.
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I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment.
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When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
