David Bergen Quotes

The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.

David Bergen

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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

W. S. Merwin
- Hands
- Our
- Asleep
I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

Kate Beckinsale
- Me
- Try
- Boring
When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.

Karen Bass
- Early
- Brown
- Earned
I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

Natasha Trethewey
- People
- May
- Poetry
Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

Carlo Rubbia
- Time
- Science
- Practice
I don't know how people recognize me.

Laura Prepon
- People
- Know
- Me