T. S. Eliot Quotes
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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Political affiliation is not a relevant part of this decision; privacy and personal freedom should be fundamental right for everyone.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
