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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Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
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Life and wisdom. What more could anybody ask?
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
