Esaias Tegner Quotes

We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

Esaias Tegner

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• I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.

  

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• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

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• I am definitely a person of color.

  

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• Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.

  

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• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  

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• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

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• I have always been terrified of the death of my parents. I never knew if I could count on myself. I never knew if that would send me over the edge.

  

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• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

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• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

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• You know yourself, once you've had the excitement of riding thoroughbreds, it's not very interesting riding anything else. But I still love horses; I just don't have one any more.

  

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• I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

  

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• We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

  

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• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

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• All trials are trials for one’s life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

  

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• You live alone, creating your life as you go.

  

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• I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

  

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• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

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• Just because I'm staring deep into your birth canal does not mean that I'm fucked up. It means you should have paid more attention in high school and I have a dollar. I have four quarters and you have a bad job. Don't get pissed at me because you didn't learn how to type, you no-back-up-plan-having pain in the ass.

  

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• I went to work in 1962, and by '64 I was writing all the time, every night and every weekend. It didn't occur to me that, having read nothing and knowing nothing, I was in no position to write a book.

  

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• When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'

  

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• Oh, there's all these rumors that I'm a lesbian. I have a boyfriend now, Brandon Blackstock; my manager Narvel's son, Reba McEntire's stepson.

  

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• We speak of profane arts; but there are none properly such; every art is holy in itself; it is the son of Eternal Light.

  

  Esaias Tegner
  • Light
  • Son
  • Arts