William Wetmore Story Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Everyone has a breakup in their lives, and I think everyone should experience love.
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In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
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To love another person is to see the face of God.
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Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.
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I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.
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I like to think of photographing as a two-way act of respect. Respect for the medium, by letting it do what it does best, describe. And respect for the subject, by describing it as it is. A photograph must be responsible to both.
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Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.
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Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks.
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The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.
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We won '98, '99 and 2000. I don't think you'll see that again. I really don't believe you'll see a team win three World Series in a row. Not that we were so much better than everybody else, but that's how hard it is to even win one World Series.
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And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you.
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
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To everyone who loves a long-secret romance, revealed at last.
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I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.
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Environmentalism is a luxury. Just like being a vegetarian is a luxury. When you have to worry about eating - you're not going to be worried about where the food's coming from, or who made your shoes. Poverty, whether planned or not planned, is a way of making environmentalism moot.
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The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.
