Charlotte Mew Quotes
You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
Quotes to Explore
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
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It used to be that you came out of school, and you got married - those who were going to get married. But my peers are getting married in their early 30s, so now there's like this extra 10 years of that angst.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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If you have more money than your lifestyle, then you can either do something stupid or smart. That's not much of a choice. That's like saying, 'You are on the roof. you can either take the elevator, or you can jump.' That's not a choice.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew
