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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As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.
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As an actor, I'm limited to re-in acting someone else's vision or portraying a fictitious character.
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Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.
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I can be upset by malice. Most critics are very poor poets. Poetry is a craft that takes a lot to appreciate, and there are some critics who have no ear for it. An irresponsible critic can do a lot of psychic damage, but eventually, they don't affect your work.
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Perhaps the greatest lesson Huxley learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
