"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."

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"Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it."

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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

Joan Didion, American Author

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"While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced."

John B. S. Haldane, British Scientist

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"I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play."

Charlotte Gainsbourg, French Actress

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"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter."

Sai Baba, Indian Leader

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"The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Thought, Mind, Change, Perception

"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."

George Stevens, American Director

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"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

Johann Most, German Revolutionary

Thought, Hope, Communism, Country

"I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun."

Julie Bowen, American Actress

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"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."

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"When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all."

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"When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had."

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"I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early."

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"The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case."

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"When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats."

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"I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."

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"I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier."

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