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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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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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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Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.
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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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It can be tough to find areas where Left and Right can agree. Consider the well-being of children: Americans often disagree about how to raise kids, how to educate them, even what to feed them.
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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
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You can't win what you don't fight for.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.
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The work of the artist is to heal the soul.
