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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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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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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As you get older you also start to lose your anger a bit.
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I think that the best literature has a core that you can't lock to a time or place but that can generate lots of meanings and translations.
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I don't think about competition. I am definitely attracted to not just playing a regular character - I don't know there's any such thing as "regular. In American Crime, I get to play a runaway who's living with her pimp in North Carolina and she's a prostitute, but she's a victim of human trafficking because she's under 18. I like those roles. That's what I wanted; I wanted to play someone that was a challenge.
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They all have excellent resumes... So what I’m trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure. Will they lie, or bluff, or panic, or wilt? Or will they continue to function with some modicum of competence and integrity?
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I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.
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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.
