Marianne Moore Quotes
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.
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If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds. They're the funniest, most eccentric bizarre people I've ever met, my siblings.
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Writing and directing might be a red herring, and really I'm just re-examining what it is to act, to do it well and do it properly.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I'm always pleased when people respond to the work.
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The indisputable fact is that nutritional science is the most powerful weapon available to win the war on cancer.
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I used to think that what scared me was the idea of being abandoned until someone said to me, 'Only children can be abandoned. Adults can't be abandoned because we have a choice. Children don't have a choice.'
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Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people.
