Jane Hirshfield Quotes
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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It's not that I don't get on bandwagons; I just climb aboard only after most of the band has packed up and left for the next gig.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
