Karl Shapiro Quotes
Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
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I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
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I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.
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Money can be made later, but time is lost forever.
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Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.
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Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
