Anne Stevenson Quotes

I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.

Anne Stevenson

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As a single woman, I reap the benefits of being Stifler's mom.

Jennifer Coolidge

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A critic once described me as an 'amiable beanpole.' I got it printed on a T-shirt.

John Gordon Sinclair

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Time is the most valuable thing in life because it never comes back. And whether you spend it in the arms of a loved one or alone in a prison cell, life is what you make of it.

Stefan Karl Stefansson

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Every time I wrote fiction, I was discouraged, and every time I wrote nonfiction, I was encouraged.

Ron Chernow

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You're going up against the billionaire boys' club or trying to find your way into something you have no basis for, and it's bigger than anything you ever imagined - and then actually having that work. Having that risk pan out. It taught me to be very fearless - maybe too fearless in the end.

Molly Bloom

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I think my dad has a similar black sense of humour to mine, so perhaps it's just an inherited thing. I've got two little boys now, and I can see it with them as well. I don't know if you learn it off your parents - but my dad used to take me to see certain plays when I was quite young, so maybe that had an effect as well.

Julia Davis

ParentsMeBlackThinkLearnYou

In terms of the energy-banking concept, what we'd love to be able to do is to act in a way where customers could deposit excess energy when they didn't need it and withdraw it when they did need it.

Debra L. Reed

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After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

Donald Hall

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You can't change how people act, but what you can change is how you react.

Bonnie Hammer

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I look at myself at 19 and think I would never do what I did then now! I was so brazen, so confident, so fearless in a way. And remember, the world was a very aggressive place then.

Boy George

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Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore.

Anohni

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I have a passion for not only my own kids but just kids in general.

Anthony Hamilton

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