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To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.


Wallace Stevens

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STUART STEVENS I've never tried to find my real parents. I'm very grateful to my mum and dad for adopting m...
DAN STEVENS I really wanted to be born a woman. It all started there. A South American woman. And I'm upset ...
FISHER STEVENS Everything I do is for the pleasure of Allah.
CAT STEVENS I think having children is the most amazing thing.
RACHEL STEVENS I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by an...
CONNIE STEVENS Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
CONNIE STEVENS A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair ...
DAN STEVENS The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in...
DAN STEVENS I was more secure being a mother than I was walking on a set.
CONNIE STEVENS My kids are pretty secure, bright, and know who they are.
CONNIE STEVENS I am from Brooklyn, NY, so we could not have many pets, but I always had at least two dogs.
CONNIE STEVENS I am a New Yorker.
CONNIE STEVENS I love being Italian.
CONNIE STEVENS I made the decision a long time ago that I had an obligation to my children that I happily fulfilled...
CONNIE STEVENS Once you have an animal, you have to commit to it. They need a sense of freedom, but, of course, the...
CONNIE STEVENS It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.
CONNIE STEVENS She will be successful who is easy to start and hard to stop.
CONNIE STEVENS