Jim Morrison Quotes
Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
Quotes to Explore
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
J. Tillman
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
Karl Rove
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
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The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.
Ted Yoho
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
Edgar Ramirez
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The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
Orson Welles
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
Barry Jenkins
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I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
Larry David
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The anorexic is out to prove how little she needs, how little she can survive on; she is out, in a sense, to discredit her nurturers, while at the same time making a public crisis out of her need for nurture. Such vulnerability and such power: it brings the whole female machinery to a halt.
Rachel Cusk
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
J. B. Pritzker
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'They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.'
Neal Stephenson
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A brisk, bright, blue-eyed fellow, a very neat figure and rather under the middle size, never out of the way and never in it.
Charles Dickens
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
Sam Houston
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
L'Wren Scott
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When everything seems like its changed…its because things have." Ethan Wate in Beautiful Creatures.
Kami Garcia
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
