T. S. Eliot Quotes
It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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For its merit I will knight it, and then it will be Sir-Loin.
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In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.
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Does man think because he has found that thinking pays? Does he bring his children up because he has found it pays?
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A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
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It has frequently been said that we never desire what we think absolutely inapprehensible: it is however true that some of our sharpest agonies are those in which the object of desire is regarded as both possible and imaginary.
