T. S. Eliot Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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Funny is an attitude.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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I've always wanted to make Australian art interesting. To get a different audience watching art documentaries would be great.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.
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I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
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I think Patrick will tell you, hey, it was bad decisions, ... Hopefully, what you do is learn from some bad experiences.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.
