Anne Sexton Quotes
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I love to be surrounded by nature.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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New York musicians rarely have the time for idle chat and conversation after a gig. Despite popular assumption of our scintillating after-hours, that illusion is overtaken by the constant hustle to juggle a part-time or full-time job, a myriad of errands, a second or third gig of the day, and perhaps a child or two somewhere.
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The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.
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Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
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His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.
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It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.
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Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable - and life is more than a dream.
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I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
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I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.
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I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.
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Nature made the fields and man the cities.
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed.
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Even so, I must admire your skill.You are so gracefully insane.
