Philip Levine Quotes

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

Philip Levine

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• For me, it's always been about preparation, and the more prepared I can be each week, the less pressure I feel and the more confident I am. As your confidence grows, it's only natural that the pressure you feel diminishes.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Confidence
  • Preparation

• For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Truth
  • Spirit
  • Worst

• I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Acting

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• There's no family in America that can celebrate a victory better than the Harbaughs. You'll never hear more laughter, more storytelling, or more embellishment.

  

  Jack Harbaugh
  • Family
  • America
  • Victory

• To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Money
  • Mistake
  • Dawn

• Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Work
  • Man
  • Small

• Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Time
  • You

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Suffering
  • End

• In the future, I want a movie career, kids and a happy marriage.

  

  Vendela Kirsebom
  • Kids
  • Movie
  • Happy

• When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Writing
  • Emotion
  • Curiosity

• I love 'First Wives Club' and 'Death Becomes Her' and movies about women like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Women
  • Love
  • Death

• I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Know
  • Happiness
  • Weird

• I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Good
  • Enjoy

• Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Hope

• I'm passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.

  

  Lily Collins
  • People
  • Up
  • Bullying

• People love Batman, and I would be stupid, I would be a fool if I didn't love Batman.

  

  Adam West
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Fool

• When I started acting, doing theater stuff at a young age, I was always the comic relief-type roles, so I knew I had a funny bone and could make groups of people laugh, but I didn't really take it seriously until I started getting paid on a weekly basis; then I was like, 'Oh, well, this could be a lifestyle.'

  

  Kenan Thompson
  • People
  • Age
  • Funny

• Who can fail to mist at Fergie's anthem, 'My humps, my humps, my lovely lady lumps.' Hmmm. 'My lunch, my lunch, I swear it's coming up.

  

  Celia Rivenbark
  • Lovely
  • Lunch
  • Swear

• If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

  

  Philip Levine