William Carlos Williams Quotes
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
Quotes to Explore
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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In many, many parts of the world, being a female, you're really just wallpaper. If you take care to blend in, no one would think in a thousand years that you were doing anything suspicious.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
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I have always been very calm on the outside. I'm not too stressed now just because I'm in formula one. For me, tomorrow will be another day whether I finish first or last. I have to do the maximum and I cannot ask any more from myself.
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There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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The worst thing you can do after a test screening is slash it for the lowest common denominator.
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You couldn't make the fans throw up their hands if they swallowed their fingers.
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It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.
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To hinder, besides, the farmer from selling his goods at all times to the best market, is evidently to sacrifice the ordinary laws of justice to an idea of public utility, to a sort of reasons of state; an act of legislative authority which ought to be exercised only, which can be pardoned only in cases of the most urgent necessity.
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Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.
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I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.
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In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
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If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
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We must be willing to forgive without limit even as God forgives; otherwise we cannot be forgiven.
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There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
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I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
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Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
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As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight.
