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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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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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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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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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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You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
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Here's to new blood.
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The only time I've ever really felt envy is when I've watched people make music, which made my time living in the now-legendary Jazz Loft at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York a constant source of agony and ecstasy!
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That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people, 'Do they hate him?' That takes a lot of nerve.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
