Charlotte Mew Quotes
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I lived around the corner from Saul Bellow.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.
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Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
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With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.
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People will remember a good comedy song a lot longer than they would some of the so-called straight love songs.
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People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.
