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It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.


John Sexton

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my map.
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ROB SEXTON I suffer for birds and fireflies
but not frogs, she said,
and threw him across the room. ANNE SEXTON The summer has seized you,
as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw
lemons as large as your de...
ANNE SEXTON This definitely gives me more confidence and I'm sure it does for our offense.
WYATT SEXTON Need is not quite belief.
ANNE SEXTON While they trace their history back to wars that helped to ethnically cleanse Native Americans and t...
BRENDAN SEXTON III That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I ge...
BRENDAN SEXTON III When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest th...
BRENDAN SEXTON III The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.
BRENDAN SEXTON III I'm so proud of you," she said, and she supposed she was, or she would have been if her sister hadn'...
MARGARET WILKERSON SEXTON My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS