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 think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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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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Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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You have to be proud of who you are.
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Nike told me, 'We can't give you royalties because you're not a professional athlete.' I told them 'I'll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.' I'm a performance athlete!
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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.
