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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.
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We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.
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I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.
