T. S. Eliot Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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How can you have an educated workforce, how do you equal the economic disparities in this country, if you can't make college more affordable for those who are struggling to make it?
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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At 45, you know what you're doing, but you're still not done.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I'd never discuss anything confidential.
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I really believe in the power of music.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
