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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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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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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I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.
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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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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.
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I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.
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As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.
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I've always loved fantasy books. Even just growing up, I've always kind of loved magic and fantasy.
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Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.
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A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest.
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If you knew the meaning of life, would you necessarily like it?
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
