Randall Jarrell Quotes
Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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People ask if I walk around and pinch myself. Yes, I do.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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I represent the 'Wonder Woman' of the new world.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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I started out wanting to be an actress. My sister was in this theater company in Brooklyn. I saw her in some plays, and I was immediately obsessed. I started auditioning for plays when I was about 10.
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You know, Greenwich Village was the traditional bohemia of New York. I wish I could say that was entirely true now. It's, uh... changed. It's now got, God help us, investment bankers and journalists, but it's still a very beautiful part of New York.
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I get more people approaching me about how good I was in 'Napoleon Dynamite' than being in Coldplay.
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I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anything else.'
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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.
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Sam is a repetitive, comic process that merely marks time: he gets nowhere, but then he doesn’t want to get anywhere. Although there is no possibility of any real change in Sam, he never stops changing: Sam stays there inside Sam, getting less and less like the rest of mankind and more and more like Sam, Sam squared, Sam cubed, Sam to the nth.
