Ezra Pound Quotes
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
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Concerning iTunes, the deals have mainly been done with the record companies. But the artists, with some exceptions, haven't been very well-represented. This is partly because the record companies have largely been copyright owners.
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This was a great book! It follows how Jason Walker is transported back to earth after spending months in Lyrian. He knows that he has things that he still must do in Lyrian. He decides to try and find a way back. The problem is that if he doesn't travel through the portal correctly, he will die. What happens next? You'll have to read the book to find out.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.
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Technology is the devil, and the more technology you have, the higher the price you pay.
