D. H. Lawrence Quotes
I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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High-quality alternative educational settings should be available when students violate codes of conduct and need to be removed from the classroom while still maintaining access to instruction. And there must be social, health and psychological services to address students' needs.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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I'm proud to have played characters who've inspired people to live out loud, and I'm lucky to have reached an audience that's been incredibly enthusiastic and supportive.
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
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I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as that. It's just like if you're watching something moving, and you feel yourself welling up. It's the same thing. You're just being carried along with the story. There's nothing magical about it. I think I'm in touch with my emotions, and I can't help it.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or eight years, I hardly wrote. But then I had a revelation. What if I did the opposite? What if, when a sentence or a scene was bad, I expanded it, and poured in more and more? After I started to do that, I became free in my writing.
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Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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And there was one, beneath black eaves, who thought,Combing with lifted arms her golden hair,Of the lover who hurried towards her through the night;And there was one who dreamed of a sudden deathAs she blew out her light.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief.
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Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
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The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
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I can't stand Willy wet-leg, can't stand him at any price. He's resigned, and when you hit him he lets you hit him twice.
