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'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.
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Our reputation is more important than the last hundred million dollars.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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I don't like the same old thing all the time.
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My uncles represented a strength and a power I think that to a certain degree I looked up to. But from another perspective, I had really no artist role models to fall under. No guidance in terms of intellect. In terms of not having to relate to a physical persona to get through. I wanted to relate, combine the physical personal, combine the machismo with intellect, with intelligence, with craftsmanship, with creating works that people would just look at and their jaws would just drop open, and "Wow! This is like incredible work!"
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People are only 'disappointing' when one makes a wrong diagnosis.
