William Wetmore Story Quotes
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I don't have many friends.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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The smell of cigars reminds me of someone I used to know, and it just always brings me back. I love it; I find something very comforting about it.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
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At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
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The way a character sounds is so important to how you're going to play him.
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Why don't we bring everyone up to be caring and compassionate, to believe that we are connected with everyone and everything around us?
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We work the full year round to make 10 or 12 episodes, and 'The Good Wife' makes, like, 26 in that time or something, which I can't believe. I don't know how they do it.
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
