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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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 have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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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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It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.
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Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
