Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.
Quotes to Explore
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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It was kind of good that I wasn't doing the Hollywood high life and stuff like that when I was 18, 19, 20, 21.
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I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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Every plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention.
