Edwin Arlington Robinson Quotes
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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I was teased horribly as a child and beaten up a lot.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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No matter how much you've done before, you wonder if there will be a light at the end of this particular tunnel. It's the nature of the beast, and it's a part of what compels us. Every movie is a new lesson you learn making your way through it.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.
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In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.
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As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.
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We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.
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We are youngAnd we are friends of time.
