Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I am deeply immersed in my medical work, and it can get very intense, but I believe that the connection and devotion is key. You can not work on diseases as devastating and deadly as Lassa and Ebola without complete trust and respect for the individuals with whom you work. My lab and colleagues are just extraordinary, and we are a family.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
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I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships.
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My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.
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Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.
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The best thing I ever learned when I first started acting is that you audition, and then you forget about it when you walk out the door. Even when you have a callback, you can't bank on things until you actually book that job, or your heart will just be broken over and over again.
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What I try with my own stuff is to work the poem to a slow climax through a series of quiet painful dissonances.
