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“And one rose in a tent of sea and gave A darkening shudder; water fell away; The whale stood shining, and then sank in spray.”
Source : Yvor Winters (1978). “The collected poems of Yvor Winters”, Swallow Pr
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“Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do.”
Source : "Sandra Lee's Homemade Success". Interview with Nancy Jo Sales, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 13, 2011.
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“Sometimes it seems the only accomplishment my education ever bestowed on me was the ability to think in quotations.”
Source : A Summer Birdcage ch. 1 (1963)
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“Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished”
Source : Carol Ann Tomlinson (2014). “The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, 2nd Edition”, p.10, ASCD
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“I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.”
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“It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started acting when I was about nine or 10 years old. My father was a midtown firefighter so I always wanted to be a firefighter, but then acting came along. I have to have a plan B.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.”
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“Fame has a special burden, which I might as well state here and now. I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden”