Anne Stevenson Quotes
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I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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You could pack for a trip to Europe with the bags under my eyes!
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My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.
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Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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There's not really the appetite in Wales at the moment to become an independent country. Scotland is in a different place.
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I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now.
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Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.
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The world invited me many places.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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I never wanted to be a pop star.
