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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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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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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When someone has a large change in their wealth, you'll find someone who's much more inclined to revisit all aspects of their financial circumstances.
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Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.
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The most important lesson I've learned from sports is how to be not only a gracious winner, but a good loser as well. Not everyone wins all the time, as a matter of fact, no one wins all the time. Winning is the easy part, losing is really tough. But, you learn more from one loss than you do from a million wins. You learn a lot about sportsmanship.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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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.
