Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I was always pretty good at designing things.
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How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?
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Das Philosophisch-Werden der Welt ist zugleich ein Weltlich-Werden der Philosophie; ihre Verwirklichung ist zugleich ihr Verlust.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.
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I've played some great ladies. Mame. Agnes Gooch in 'Mame,' when I started out in the '60s... it's a beautiful role.
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The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.
