Floyd Skloot Quotes
In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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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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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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According to our estimates, the Hungarians working in the U.K. altogether pay more contributions and taxes than the benefits that they get. So we belong to the world of the fair working people.
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
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In fact, I think new media is going to make a big difference with injecting more people of color into Hollywood and non-Hollywood.
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There is always an analogy between nature and the imagination, and possibly poetry is merely the strange rhetoric of that parallel.
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I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.
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In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
