Edward Thomas Quotes
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
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I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
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Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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I'm much more shy than most of my family.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
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When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
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Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
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Probably what my comment meant was that I don't care about the circumstances if I can tell the truth.
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I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.
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There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.
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For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.
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If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.
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Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger at his death.
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There are so many choices I made simply for health insurance. Is it the ideal role I wanted to play, or the TV show I wanted to be a part of? No, but it let me afford to go to the doctor.
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'Flower' is about the sublime.
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I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It's been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we're not going away.
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Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.
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Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.
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As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.
