Paul Muldoon Quotes
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
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I understand that the tendency of foreign countries in recent years has been to establish particularly close relations with one or two others among all the countries which have general relations. In time of peace, they make secret treaties in advance, and in wartime, they aid one another with military provisions and armaments.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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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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We play rock & roll, but we swing when we play. We want that ongoing flow, that lightness, that forward rush of jazz.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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Every choice you make has an end result.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I never do, I don't even go to the retrospectives.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you're going to be alone.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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I was in Mauritius, shooting for 'Break Ke Baad,' and I went for skydiving. It was a life-changing experience. Travelling, dancing, and reading are my other pastimes.
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It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
