Diego Godin Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Freedom is never given; it is won.
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I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
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I like books that don't give you an easy ride. I like the feeling of discomfort. The sense of being implicated.
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When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.
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No, I had the Levis guy on my wall, not a picture of William, sorry.
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People like it when others are gossiping. When you hear a story about someone's demise or some big faux-pas they made, everyone wants to tune into it, because it's nice to know that someone else made a mistake. It makes you feel elevated for a moment.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
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'Whoa there, lad! Whoa! Gentle now! Die well, die well.'
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Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.
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It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
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The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, 'What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?' That's the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
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The anti-elitist values in America, I think, are very destructive to education.
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The mentality is always to win.
