Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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Each of my books is different from the last, each with its own characters, its own setting, its own themes. As a writer, I need the variety. I sense my readers do, too.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.
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Sometimes I leave mayonnaise on the ends of my hair for a few hours while I'm writing; it's a really good moisturizer.
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I've never been a particular fan of any genre.
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My biggest issue is hyperpigmentation and evening out my skin tone.
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It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
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James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
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A successful designer must be a gambler.
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You may come and go, but the real test is to see how long one can manage to stay in the game.
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I've been writing full-time since I was 23.
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The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.
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We will, of course, work with whoever Americans decide to elect as president.
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My description of a bad manager is, 'Be good, but don't be better than me.'
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There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness.
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The fragments for the past, for me, are not without life.
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Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
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The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass.
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I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
