W. S. Merwin Quotes
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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I am a contradiction myself. I'm always looking for something that scares me because when I'm not scared, I'm not stimulated.
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I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
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But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone appreciates very much what they did.
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Nobody can ever describe how much you explore a character on a Peter Berg movie until you're doing it.
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You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.
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If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
