Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
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Talent is very hot.
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If other people want to say that I'm the next person in boxing, then that's up to them. That's their opinion.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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When I was a kid, I would come home from school, throw my bag, go out to play. My daughter comes home from school, throws her bag, goes to play, but sitting in front of the computer because their definition of play has changed. They don't go out to play. They play on the computer with their friends.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I have a tendency to really stuff things. I don't really express, you know? Like, express certain feelings and stuff.
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I try not to do it in a way that is hurtful, but I always tell him the truth, and he tells me the same thing. I trust him the most, and I know he trusts me the most.
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Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
