Amy Lowell Quotes
Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I'm not so sure I believe in dopplegangers. I just prefer to be Dane DeHaan.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I associate the truest spirit of Christmas with certain years when I had to spend it at my parents' house as an adult who had, presumably, escaped.
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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality.
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…if we intend to pursue the history of our species in its further attainments, we may soon enter on subjects which will confine our observation to more narrow limits. The genius of political wisdom and civil arts appears to have chosen his seats in particular tracts of the earth, and to have selected his favourites in particular races of men.
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It may be doubted whether any character can be named which is distinctive of a race and is constant.
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What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
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Now you are come! You tremble like a star Poised where, behind earth's rim, the sun has set. Your voice has sung across my heart, but numb And mute, I have no tones to answer.
