Mark Strand Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
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I make music because I like making music.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
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The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
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I farm taro. I have eight varieties of taro, which is a staple of the Hawaiian people from about 2,000 years ago, and sweet potatoes, and it's a sustainable living, agriculture, off the grid.
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Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.
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When I go back to theater, I feel good about myself. When I do films or TV, it's to make a little bread to pay my mortgage or whatever, and when I've made the money, I do theater again. And when I get a part I like, a part I can work on, that satisfies me. I feed good about myself.
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I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
