Aaron Belz Quotes
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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My husband was just OK looking. I was in labor and I said to him, 'What if she's ugly? You're ugly.'
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music.
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Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
