T. S. Eliot Quotes
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A lot of the ways of advertising a book - the cover, whether somebody sees it on a subway or sees it in a bookstore - those things are going to rapidly diminish as we move to an electronic model.
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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I never felt a need to manipulate my career from the outside - try to be someone I wasn't to get ahead.
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Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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My greatest competition is, well, me.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I used to play shows in D.C. and then drive back to New York to work at 6 A.M. So there are those moments, and you just really need to power through them. Eventually, it builds on itself.
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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
