C.D. Wright Quotes
Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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Controversial means somebody who makes people think. And if you are afraid of people who will be against you, you might as well stay home and do nothing.
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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just listen to that every day, because the album feels like, if it were a film, it would be black and white. It feels like there's a war percolating throughout the album itself. It's dark, and it has a nice forward pace to it.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I try to get my workouts in in the morning.
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The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.
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I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.
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I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35.
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There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
