Anne Stevenson Quotes
I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
Quotes to Explore
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Team synergy has an extraordinary impact on business results.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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Sometimes it's a beautiful face, sometimes it's a place. I am inspired by everything.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.
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I get quite lazy about cooking because when I come back from work it is the last thing I want to do, really is spend loads of time cooking.
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For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies - and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
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I like rhyme because it is memorable, I like form because having to work to a pattern gives me original ideas.
