C.D. Wright Quotes

Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

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• Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

  

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• What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

  

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• I mean, the idea that Bar could have sent him off on a Grand Tour. But he wasn't the least bit interested. Why? Why isn't he interested in the world? Because here's the bad news for him: He's in the world now.

  

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• Life is not just about singing.

  

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• I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

  

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• The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.

  

  Jason Blum
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• Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.

  

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• Don't ever, ever devalue your product. Ever. It's the worst thing anyone can do to hurt your brand.

  

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• Remember the Stax label and how if you liked one record, you liked all the others as well? You don't talk to a lot of people who tell you how much they love their record label. I don't care how many records they sell.

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
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• I have never gotten into the label thing.

  

  Diana Ross
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• Negative thoughts stick around because we believe them, not because we want them or choose them.

  

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• Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.

  

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• I read all the books I could find about manners, and the extraordinary thing was, in all books up to the end of the Second World War, most were directed at how to comport yourself in the presence of the ladies.

  

  Quentin Crisp
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• When we started OD2 in 1999, we were really expecting to work more with independents and so on because the major labels were spending millions on their own Pressplay and equivalents online, which haven't been very successful.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
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• The media is going to stick a label on records. And the public is going to pick it up from that. And that's what I was getting sick of-the whole analyzation thing.

  

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• Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears.

  

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• I want to be able to do what I want to do. A lot of times, the major labels, they can't see the vision, they can only see the dollar signs. So, it doesn't really work out like that.

  

  Daniel Dewan Sewell
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• Putting a label homosexual on myself was a big step forward...once I said, 'Yes, that's me, that's what I am,' I was able to work with it.

  

  Barbara Gittings
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• God has a sign in his sky for us this very day, and guidance for us tonight, and manna for every need of our lives.

  

  Agnes Moorehead
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• I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.

  

  Sadako Ogata
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• Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in their identifications. Tramp poets, there you go, a new label for those with unstable allegiances.

  

  C.D. Wright
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