T. S. Eliot Quotes
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
Quotes to Explore
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.
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I want to be my own person.
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Silence is my dignity.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style.
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I just write mechanical things.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Peace is its own reward.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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He is not rich, that enjoyeth not his own goods.
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Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
