Allen Tate Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
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I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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One of the hard truths about the new digital world is that we have to be prepared to acknowledge when an experiment is not going to work, and to take action.
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Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives, the cumulative experience of many masters of craftsmanship. Quality also marks the search for an ideal after necessity has been satisfied and mere usefulness achieved.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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There is a calm for you where men and women Unroll the chill precision of moving feet.
