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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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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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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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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Kids deserve arts, and it's just as important as science, math, history, English or athletics.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
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I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.
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It's a very complicated issue, this fame thing - I was not really cut out for it. There are some really fantastic things about it, but it's difficult for a private person like myself.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
