Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.Yusef Komunyakaa
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
Maeve Binchy -
Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
Washed Out -
When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
Vince Staples -
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Patrick Stewart -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
Rachel Dratch
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The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
Ralph Adams Cram -
Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
Kaley Cuoco -
I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
Vikram Patel -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
Quentin Crisp
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
Samuel Goldwyn -
Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
J. A. Konrath -
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
J. Paul Getty -
My most joy that I have is dancing.
Camila Alves -
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
Usain Bolt
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
Octavia Spencer -
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
Ernest Hemingway -
I'm pretty fortunate that I'm in the films I'm in largely because the directors have asked me to be in them. I'd love to do more of them, but the writing and historical stuff I'll probably always do.
Ricky Jay -
We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.
Madeleine Stowe -
Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.
Jerry Saltz -
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa