Charles Reznikoff Quotes
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Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where for the first time in my life I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books. This was where I discovered 'Encyclopedia Brown' and 'Nancy Drew,' 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Rebecca.' This was where I became inspired to be a writer.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
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I'm very careful. I think about everything. Some people go, 'Oh, I went out and bought something and didn't realise how much it was,' but there's no such thing with me. I always think about the future because I never want to go backwards.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
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I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.
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As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.
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Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I think Destiny's purpose is merely to shock us at moments into a state of awareness; those moments are milestones in between which we have to find our own way.
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I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.
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I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.
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The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly.
