Galway Kinnell Quotes
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
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I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a heart attack or stroke, I'd eat everything. I just can't. So I got to watch my health and take care of my family.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind
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Being born again means you have a new concept of yourself.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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Prose is walking; poetry is flying...
