Edwin Muir Quotes
There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Yes, I loved MASH. As we are sitting here now talking, it's playing somewhere in the world.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!
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We did major work at the White House. But what people often don't understand is that when you do a historic restoration, you can't just do whatever you want. You work alongside the fine-arts commission and are obliged to create a replica of the past, as close as humanly possible. It's a historic institution, not a showhouse.
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I mean, I did plays in high school, but I was convinced you couldn't make a living doing it.
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I can't even remember the first time I started singing.
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I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.
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A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
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The first half of the 20th century in the United States and much of the world was an era when racial and ethnic differences determined even the most uncontrived actions. Stepping into a restaurant, boarding a train, engaging in sexual relationships, or running or voting for a public office were all ruled by notions of differences between groups.
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I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.
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My successor, John Kerry, and President Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran's nuclear program without firing a single shot. That's diplomacy. That's coalition-building. That's working with other nations.
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In greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world...
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I am dead: dead, but in the Elysian fields.
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Se me abre una puerta, entro y me hallo con cien puertas cerradas.
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We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.
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...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.
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You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.
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There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.
