Lucretius Quotes
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I am just so thankful that my mom was a fantastic mom. She wasn't a stage mother; she didn't push me. She was happy if I was happy. We are so different. I was very shy; my mom did all the talking. She was my strength. She never expected that I would be this ballerina.
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I'm not one of those people that wears something once and tosses it aside. I wear my shoes until they beg to be thrown away. Parting is such sweet sorrow - and then it's onto the next pair.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.
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I've always tried to explore the humorous aspects of life.
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I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.
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While choosing a fashion show, I take into consideration the designer and the collection. Then only I said yes to do a show.
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It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade: Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes.
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I've always had great faith in people.
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A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe.
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I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.
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A lot of my work comes from my life experiences.
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I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.
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Nequeunt oculis rerum primordia cerni.
