T. S. Eliot Quotes

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
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  • Perfect

• I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Think
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  • Bank

• Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

  

  Mae Jemison
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• If you're famous, you're not free.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
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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.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
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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.

  

  Pat Conroy
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• I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.

  

  Zach Wamp
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• You break her heart, I'll break your neck.

  

  Vin Diesel
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• When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • You
  • Feel
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• When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • You
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  • Study

• I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
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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?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Country
  • You
  • College

• 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.

  

  J. Cole
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• My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

  

  Harland Williams
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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.

  

  Rafael Vinoly
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• I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • People
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• It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Trust
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• I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

  

  Patricia Riggen
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• Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.

  

  Kaskade
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• I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

  

  Uzo Aduba
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• If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

  

  T. S. Eliot
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