John Ciardi Quotes
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.
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If there is a good musical reason, I think it might draw more attention and sell, though it is not guaranteed. To make a record without a musical reason, you have to either be a pop star who sells automatically or just be lucky.
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What's really important is that all we ever were was a band. And all we ever wanted to be was a band.
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In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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When I was 5 years old I would lie in bed, look at the radio, and I wanted to be on the radio. I don't know why.
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One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
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Of this story I can say that it came to me in an irresistible form, crying to be written. It will be accused perhaps of being a mere piece of sentimentality, but, as I saw it, it was a great deal more. If, therefore, it lacks the ring of sincerity, or even, of tragedy, the fault rests not with the theme but with my handling of it.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
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The odds against an adoptee ending up as the child of the President of the United States are staggering. But then, so are the odds against a movie star becoming president
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Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.
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I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.
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Even as a kid, if I would come across something cool in the record store, that would be how I found out about bands. It's kind of the same way these days. In a way even less because there are no record stores to go to anymore.
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All instruments sound fantastic in a church.
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A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse.
