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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Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I never wanted to be a pop star.
