Oscar Wilde Quotes
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that I had a fascination with things coming out of people's mouths.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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Instead of writing songs for girls, I tend to write albums, which I guess is a bit weird.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
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Moviewise, I would love to make the story of princess Erendira. She was a 16 year old princess/warrior who led her tribe in war against the Spanish around 1513. She almost defeated them, and the Tarascans were the only tribe the Aztecs couldn't defeat.
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Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.
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I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.
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Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.
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I have always wanted to work in the theater. I've always felt the glamour of being backstage and that excitement, but I've never actually done it - not since I was in 5th grade, really. But I've had many plays in my films. I feel like maybe theater is a part of my movie work.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
