Etel Adnan Quotes
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.Etel Adnan
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
Joanne Rowling -
What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
Olivier Martinez -
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
Ted Naifeh -
If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.
Wallace Stevens -
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig
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We need to be clear when we venerate entrepreneurs what we are venerating. They are not moral leaders. If they were moral leaders, they wouldn't be great businessmen.
Malcolm Gladwell -
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling -
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig -
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
Orson F. Whitney -
We must create a state that responds to the citizens' needs, and we need citizens who feel committed to their state because that state serves the citizens.
Carlos Mesa -
I really don't have a need to be on TV all that much, to be honest with you.
Larry Wilmore
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A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
Wallace Stevens -
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
T. S. Eliot -
Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
Dana Plato -
Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.
Patrick White -
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
Ted Danson -
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
J. G. Ballard
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However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis -
You break her heart, I'll break your neck.
Vin Diesel -
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
Jane Austen -
When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened.
Yoko Ono -
I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
Norm MacDonald -
Usually, I am a compulsive person, and I need - sometimes urgently - to paint... Painting is close to poetry, is a kind of poetry expressed visually. It has to be spontaneous, rapid - at least in my case.
Etel Adnan