John Ashbery Quotes
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
Quotes to Explore
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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I go to Australia probably once every two years. It's wide-open spaces there, so I just rent a motorcycle and ride out to the middle of the continent. For hours, you don't see anybody.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.
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I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
