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.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.
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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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To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper.
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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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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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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.
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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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Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
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There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.
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There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.
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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.
