Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I certainly never saw myself as posh.
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I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.
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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
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What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass.
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
