Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.
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I am thankful I was born in America, although if I gain any more weight the burqa thing may start to seem like a good idea to me. See? Another plus about America, you can always find some food.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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If someone comes to you with, 'It's my kid's graduation,' you don't tell them, 'Sorry, you can't go to that.' You just don't do that. You figure out some other way.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
