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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I told the team before the game they didn't quite seem to have the passion and intensity you need to have every time you step on the field. That's something this team is usually good at. That concerns me a little bit.
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I studied you until I knew you, or at least, the public parts of you: your learning, your passion, the way your voice slows down when you answer a question. I studied your hands, and wondered how they'd touch me; your hair, and how it would smell. I wondered about that and about the rest of you I could not see. I wanted to know you. And I wanted you to know me. I wanted you to see me.
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The fact that I didn't have a mom is a challenge; it was a struggle; and we made the best of it, and because of that my relationship with my dad is that much stronger.
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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.
