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It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.
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It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand.
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It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
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It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.
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It seems that you live in someone else's dream
In a hand-me-down wedding dress
With the things that could have been are repressed
But you said your vows and you closed the door
On so many men who would have loved you moreNarrow Stairs -
It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from.
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It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.
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It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas... If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you... On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish the useful ideas from the worthless ones.
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It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.
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It took me years to live down Dracula and convince the film producers that I would play almost any other type of role.
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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.
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It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.
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It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes. It's not really a hard thing for me to do.
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It's about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.
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It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.
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It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.
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It's best to give while your hand is still warm.
Everyman (2006) -
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
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