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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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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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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Don't bother me while I'm eating, or when I'm coming out of the crackhouse or something. Just let me get going.
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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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For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
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Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.
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If the Karmabanque hasn't worked, it's because there isn't yet a critical mass of people who are prepared to fight back and who instead prefer to be victims.
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I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube's twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.
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Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.
