Anne Stevenson Quotes
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.
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Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.
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I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
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When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.
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Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
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Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.
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Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.
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Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'
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Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.
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I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.
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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
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Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.
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I decline to accept the end of man.
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Luckily I am very, very privileged and feel very lucky to be getting work and my kiddies are not feeling the brunt of any kind of horror that's going on today. So I'm super lucky.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
