Anne Sexton Quotes
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I'm on the road earning my money. I didn't get any million pound record deals. Not unless you're Jedward! I'm doing very well, but I still have a mortgage to pay off. So I'm on the road.
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I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.
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Finally having the freedom to speak is a really liberating feeling.
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If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.
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We are not going to be the agency where large businesses can masquerade as a small business and get a contract. We are closing down on fraud, waste and abuse.
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There's something in me that loves to inspire people: when I'm playing music, I imagine all this sparkly stardust going through everyone. I want to make people come alive.
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The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
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I've had a lot of folks tell me that my songs weren't quite country because they didn't really sound like anybody that had come along and done it before me. I felt a little out of place for a while.
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Land was what they wanted, as if the mere ownership of dirt could turn a peasant into a squire.
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The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
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The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.
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And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day
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Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
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The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.
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When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.
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That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.
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Every orchestra I know, every opera house I know, is desperately looking around trying to find new talent, new composing talent, supporting young composers, supporting new ideas, supporting new ways of getting the message across.
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World unity is the wish of the hopeful, the goal of the idealist and the dream of the romantic. Yet it is folly to the realist and a lie to the innocent.
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One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
