Kathleen Raine Quotes
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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I may have a slightly paranoid nature, a fear of losing control of my life.
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My wife is completely different from me: she's good with everyone, whereas I'm good at directed conversation when I have a purpose for it, like now. If everyone's sitting around being social, I'm not great.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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Vegetables are organized bodies that grow on the dry areas of the globe and within its waters. Their function is to combine immediately the four elements and to serve as food for animals.
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A mother always thinks twice: for herself and for the child
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
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The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
