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 have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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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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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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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 feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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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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Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
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The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.
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With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
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The great conductor is always a despot by temperament and intractable in his ways. ... The artist is obliged to keep his laughter and tears to himself. If they want to emerge, in spite of himself, then he must hide them or unleash them in someone else.
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I hope that we will learn from each other, but most of all that we would learn from God's Word, which equips us for every good work, including our calling to suffer for the glory of God and for the building of His kingdom.
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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.
