David Whyte Quotes
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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It's insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Where do you get lumpy tiles? Well, of course, you don't. But I get a lot of toilets, and so you just dispatch a toilet with a hammer, and then you have lumpy tiles.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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On a professional side, you've got a tough problem to fix, Geoff Miller's going to do it, and he's always going to do it to very high standards, and he's always going to be on the side of right. He's always talking about 'what right looks like' - just a phrase he would always use.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
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People like to grab stuff, hold things in their hands and make things happen. Children’s museums are ideal for these kinds of things. There’s nothing more fun, to me.
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Good things happen when you meet strangers.
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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.
