Joy Harjo Quotes
I believe that poets have to be inside their poems somewhere, or the poem won't work.
Joy Harjo
Quotes to Explore
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.
Olivia Thirlby
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence
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Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.
Omari Hardwick
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
Gabriel Byrne
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Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.
Jack Black
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman
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I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
Larry Ellison
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In the Soviet Union, no industry went under until they all did.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I've discovered as an author that the process of writing a novel becomes harder over time, not easier. I used to think the reverse must be true, that it would be like any task, and the more I practiced, the more adept I'd become.
Tawni O'Dell
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I think most writers, in a sense, have this desire to disappear, to be absolutely anonymous, to be removed in some way: that comes out of the need to be a writer.
Sam Shepard
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Timing has a lot to with art.
LL Cool J
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When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Rita Mae Brown
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The air campaign is going to continue, ... The Yugoslav government hasn't done anything positive.
Javier Solana
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Every single character in the world, every creature in the world has something to give and something to learn.
Shailene Woodley
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
Finn Jones
