Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
Quotes to Explore
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I think what people get confused about is that they want to label me as this EDM girl, but a lot of this stuff is genre-less.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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You can't get emotional about your work.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Writers write for one reason: to create an emotion in the reader, to reach across and make them feel something. You want a reaction. Yeah, it's nicer when the reaction is to throw flowers than it is to throw brickbats, but you have to accept both equally.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.
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Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.
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When you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.
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E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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I need to complete my homework on time.
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But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.
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I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so much that I still want to do.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
