Allen Tate Quotes
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Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.
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The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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Food can change anything.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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I don't fear anything now.
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In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
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It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.
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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.
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It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.
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The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.
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I've been homeschooled since ninth grade.
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What was I saying? An Egyptian king Once touched long fingers, which are not anything.
