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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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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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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Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
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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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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
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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 put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.
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I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
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New York, you got money on your mind. And my words won't make a dime's worth a difference, so here's to you New York.
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Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.
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No love story worth telling is easy. The hills and valleys that make a relationship, in my opinion, is really a dynamic worth watching.
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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.
