Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
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When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I get bored. We seem to have been having a little bit more time off this winter than last winter. I'm always itching to get back in the car. It's going to get harder, so I've got to make sure that I'm doing everything I possibly can do to make sure I can start next season how I ended this season.
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I was lucky to be with Johnny... he taught me a lot about fame.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why not be in the park with the bums passing a short dog? Why pay taxes, why get educated? Of course literature is an escape. You have to fill the hours.
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
