Mark Strand Quotes
A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I'm not nervous standing with anyone.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Old friends are best.
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Government technology processes are mind-boggling long and complicated. A procurement process alone is typically two years, and that doesn't account for the time required to actually build the product.
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President Roosevelt's leadership put the world on notice that the United States of America - with the freest, most dynamic economy the world had ever seen - was open for business.
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Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved. Sometimes we are inclined to put up with a situation rather than endure. To endure is to bear up under, to stand firm against, to suffer without yielding, to continue to be, or to exhibit the state or power of lasting.
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A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.
