Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
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If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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'Game of Thrones' focuses on what's real.
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I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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I think you kind of hope for people to gush over movies, but I think the opposite way is great sometimes, too. I'd rather have a movie that you're angry about and that you're talking about the next day, than something you forget about when the popcorn goes into the trash.
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I've always been really involved in figuring out who my audience is and how to reach them.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
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I never wanted a life of having a nice house, driving around, settling down.
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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
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One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
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I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago.
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.
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Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.
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You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I have never had so much fun as in Montreal. I taught the kids French, I baby-sat, I went to school, I was a receptionist at a hairdresser's, I danced and drank all night. I found that the more you do, the more you have time to do... it's weird, non?
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