D. H. Lawrence Quotes
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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After college, I went into the NBC Page Program. It's one of those great programs that allows kids to get their feet wet in every area of the business.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
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When I was young, to have had somebody out there to look up to... it would have made a world of difference; it would have changed my life.
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I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.
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Throughout the ages, stories with certain basic themes have recurred over and over, in widely disparate cultures; emerging like the goddess Venus from the sea of our unconscious.
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Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
