Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes

In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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• Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.

  

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• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

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• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

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• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

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• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

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• I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

  

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• I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.

  

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• Often the last thing I want to do is stand up in front of 50 cameras on the red carpet. I'd rather have a cup of hot milk and an early night.

  

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• If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

  

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• None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction - they're always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

  

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• Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.

  

  Anne Stevenson
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• I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.

  

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• Echoes of the iPhone are everywhere. Xiaomi's phones and Google's new Pixel are designed to fool you into thinking that they just might be an iPhone.

  

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• I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

  

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• I'm slow to make a decision. I need to think things over for a long time, to weigh the pros and cons, to look at issues 10, 20, or 30 times. But when that's done, I'm quick to act.

  

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• The wealth of a churchman God gives it, and the Devil takes it away.

  

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• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  

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• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

  

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• When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!

  

  Daphne Zuniga
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• What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have........ ....... Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. ~From "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke

  

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• In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Passion
  • Secret
  • Poison