Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes
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I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.
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I don't really like questions about the writing process, because the truth is I don't know how I write.
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We have to have an economy that is strong for everyone, working families who believe they can get ahead and give the children a better quality of life.
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These days I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist, but I don't really think my views do deviate from the Reformed tradition, though in some respects they may represent views that are not as popular now as they once were, or that may represent a minority report in the tradition.
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Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
