Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
Quotes to Explore
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
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End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.
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I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
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When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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We're not looking at banning all weapons.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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I just want get to as high as I can go. I think that's the safest and most politically correct thing I can say. I'm not trying to take anyone's spot. I want to create my own lane and shoot to the sky.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.
