Ezra Pound Quotes
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I get cold - really cold - when I travel.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast cancer.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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A leg I noticed next, fine as a mote, 'And on this frail eyelash he walked,' I said, 'And climbed and walked like any mountain-goat.'
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I was born with music inside me. That's the only explanation I know of, since none of my relatives could sing or play an instrument. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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In reality, a cell is a biological mini-me compared to the human body. A cell has every biological system that you have.
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As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.
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I always grapple with myself, from job to job, 'Is this going to make an impact in some way?'
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After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky.
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A great piece of literature does not try to coerce you to believe it or agree with it. A great piece of literature simply is. It is a vehicle of truth, but it is not a blueprint, and we tend to confuse the two.
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Cultural imperialism involved, among many other things, exploration, missionary and humanitarian missions, travel, and the use of education and publishing to disseminate European ideas.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I see far stronger and more charismatic personalities strolling around Philadelphia's neighborhoods than are being featured in most of today's bland daytime soaps.
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Drink was the most fearsome of deceivers ... for it promised one thing and came through with quite another.
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Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
