Earle Birney Quotes
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is — to die.
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During slumber's magic reignOther times shall live again;
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When I go to the movies, I like to see something different.
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I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.
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Hamdan Sports Complex is an amazing venue, and I think all the players will love it.
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We're going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes.
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I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.
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Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.
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Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.
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The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.
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I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.
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The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.
