T. S. Eliot Quotes
That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

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Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.
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I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
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If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty bodies; the randy father, the husband holding ice in his hand like a blessing, the mother bleeding into herself and the small imploding girl, i say if i should walk into that web, who will come flying after me, leaping tall buildings? you?
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La flor que tienes en tus manos ha nacido hoy y ya tiene tu edad.
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Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
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That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.