Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
Laura Dern
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
Gabrielle Aplin
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
Maeve Binchy
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
Dallas Roberts
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In order to be who you are as a human being, you need to be willing to upset people.
Keri Smith
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It was a little skirmish across a century.
Margery Allingham
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No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
Orison Swett Marden
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'Dance Dance Revolution.' That's a lot of fun when you're having a dinner party and you just want to be a little silly.
Natalie Martinez
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When you have decided to purchase a farm, be careful not to buy rashly; do not spare your visits and be not content with a single tour of inspection. The more you go, the more will the place please you, if it be worth your attention. Give heed to the appearance of the neighbourhood, - a flourishing country should show its prosperity. "When you go in, look about, so that, when needs be, you can find your way out.
Cato the Elder
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For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
