Witter Bynner Quotes
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.
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They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, 'Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3.' … WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!
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Truly, I am not afraid of one man in this whole UFC Octagon roster. I truly don't care. What's the worst thing that's going to happen to me? I lose. I get knocked out?
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
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I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.
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I help design my own tennis clothes.
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I'd have to say the best part of being successful is being able to take care of my mom so she never has to worry about anything again and also being able to put my friends and people I care about in positions to win.
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I'm so lucky because I get to have all of these memories. I can have all of those pictures and different sorts of films and stuff. Some people have only one photo, and I'm really glad that I have all of that.
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I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.
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I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.
