Paul Muldoon Quotes
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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I believe that there are human stocks with whom it is physically unwise to intermarry, but to think that these stocks are all colored or that there are no such white stocks is unscientific and false.
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I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
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It's an extension of what I do also as part of making my living - I go into schools and work with kids on writing, and I do assembly programs often. Each one is different because each school has different requirements.
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Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
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I just want to be in good things that I want to see, and I want to work with talented people who are smarter than myself.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
