Emily James Smith Putnam Quotes
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
Barbara Corcoran -
When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
Naomi Wolf -
Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
Rachel Sklar -
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Jack Bowman -
I think you're working and learning until you die.
Joanne Rowling
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Never in endless time will ring a sound as sweetly As when a human heart in God is tuned completely.
Angelus Silesius -
Basically our championship starts here. Fourteen races, not sixteen. It's not a comfortable position to be in, but that's the reality. The team is conscious about the challenge we have to make to recover the ground over Benetton.
Ayrton Senna -
We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.
Desmond Tutu -
Our problems stem from our childhood. Ray was, for so long, the only boy. Then I arrive and take all his limelight away from him. That must have quite a profound effect. I sometimes think that Ray was only happy for three-and-a-half years in his life. And those were the three-and-a-half years before I was born.
Dave Davies The Kinks -
Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping right through you.
Jeff Bridges -
I came out to my family when I was 13. I was a very young kid, a vulnerable kid.
Dan Amboyer
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I love New Orleans.
Chris Paul -
In the book of Colossians, it talks about that because of what Christ did, we are pure. We are without judgment on ourselves. And only through him can we do something like this.
Jim Bakker -
Racism is what acquitted O. J. Simpson.
Katherine Ryan -
There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.
Marsha Thomason -
If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.
Jeff Shaara -
I'm very slow. I'm a slow learner.
Joel Grey
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If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.
Elaine Stritch -
A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
Sam Shepard -
My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States, 'We are wintering in Worcestershire.' This may be a sentence that has never actually been uttered in human history, even by people who spend all their winters in Worcestershire.
Christopher Buckley -
I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
Larry Hagman -
My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.
Vidal Sassoon -
The true lady is in theory either a virgin or a lawful wife.
Emily James Smith Putnam