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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Edgar Allan Poe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849

Topics

I Am Weakness Disaster Above Between

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Life Responsibility Self-Respect Own

I'm older than my sister so I started writing first. I started writing at school. I was always top of my class in composition, essays, English Lit and all of that.

School Sister Writing Class Top Lit

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a father figure for generations.

Father Music Personality Lifetime He

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

You More Knowing Audience Tell Your

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Nature Passion People Energy Busy

I remember being very young and going to AA meetings with my father in Brooklyn. I thought it was fun because they served hot chocolate and cookies.

Father Fun Thought Meetings Remember

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attitude, our thoughts, our beliefs, our speech and our actions. We can transform our life experience simply by changing our language.

Life Attitude Experience Thoughts

You hear about women buying shoes? I buy DVDs. I definitely have a problem.

Women Shoes Problem You Buy Buying

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

Happy You Done Accept Never Hard

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

Love Her Just Match Our I Love

When you're a child actor and play the precocious kid, the temptation is to wear leather pants or a cutoff shirt to redefine yourself. But I never felt the need to randomly reshuffle the deck and say, 'Don't call me Peter. Call me Pete.' I just figured you evolve naturally, and you'll be recognized for what your successes are.

Peter Billingsley

Yourself Child Me You Play Say

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Loved Feel Said Comfortable Never

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