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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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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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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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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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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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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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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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
