Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes
Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
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A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.
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The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.
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I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.
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Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.
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The proof that our relationship is right with God is that we do our best whether we feel inspired or not.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
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Being constantly surprised about what nature can create, that inspires me beyond belief.
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Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.
