Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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If I wake up in the middle of the night and have an idea, I want to go to my computer and be able to do it. So I hired someone at Guitar Center to come over to my house and teach me Logic music program, and I learned it over a couple months.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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You have to follow that next step.
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It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.
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I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.
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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.
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I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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If you had no new technology, and you powered society as we do today - mostly by fossil fuels - you'd have only two choices: Doom yourself to horrific climate change by burning all that carbon and releasing all that CO2. Or power down society, reducing total energy usage around the planet.
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I don't know if people really want to know how I feel about drugs. I'm not such a stickler. I believe you can choose to live your life any way you want.
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Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
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As a matter of international law, the United States is in an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida, the Taliban, and associated forces, in response to the 9/11 attacks, and we may also use force consistent with our inherent right of national self-defense.
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Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which appeared each time again and again, which robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear?
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A budget is what a budget is; you've got to make it fit
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I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.
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My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.
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It is a commonplace that Racine is untranslatable. This is not because his verse is difficult, but because it is not.
