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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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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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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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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Oh, shut up. He is not saying that he's too good-looking to be friends with girls. But then again, yesterday at the beach, there were a high percentage of beach beauties sitting very close to us and/or sauntering repeatedly past. And he never looked up once. I snort. "You poor handsome thing. If only you were ugly, then girls wouldn't have to throw themselves at you all the time. I could break your perfect nose for you, if it'd make your life easier.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that scares me most. - Zara
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I like the feel of your name on my lips.
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A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.
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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.
