Darryl Pinckney Quotes
'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Chemical weapons simply have no place in the 21st century. Progress in this vital area will help generate momentum to meet our goal of eliminating all weapons of mass destruction.
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I think music should be scary. Music is an exorcism.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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There's no regrets for me.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the move and all of those things. There was a tension in the air.
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I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue. If it does, I can feel a sense of momentum - the poem finds a reason for continuing.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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A good director has to be a captain - he has to work with a lot of people every day.
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Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.
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'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
