T. S. Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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For many people, managing pain involves using prescription medicine in combination with complementary techniques like physical therapy, acupuncture, yoga and massage. I appreciate this because I truly believe medical care should address the person as a whole - their mind, body, and spirit.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it, and go on to the next thing.
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You are the sum total of your dominating or most prominent thoughts.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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I'm not knocking conceptual art; it's another department, but it doesn't move me like painting.
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Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
