Ezra Pound Quotes
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
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It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that the war in Iraq was seen as the major issue in American-Arab relations.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
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For yesterday and for all tomorrows, we dance the best we know.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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I've always felt an overwhelming need to get out what was inside. The vehicle for me was words on paper - not speech, not art, not dance, not anything else.
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The power of the computer is starting to spread.
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I really actually enjoy auditioning.
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Sometimes you see women that don't realize that age is changing your style, and they don't change.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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And it's run for the rosesAs fast as you canYour fate is deliveredYour moment's at handIt's the chance of a lifetimeIn a lifetime of chanceAnd it's high time you joinedIn the danceIt's high time you joinedIn the dance.
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Keeping physical items from the past is important - we keep old toys, grandparents' jewelry, yearbooks, dance recital programs - and we assign meaning to them. Those items become the memories, and that's a very healthy thing to do. The problems occur when we have too many of those sentimental items, and they start weighing us down.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
