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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Stay calm and aggressive.
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Violence is one of the most fun things to watch.
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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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Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?
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It's in every person's life, around 27 to 29 years old, the stars and the planets align themselves to exactly the way they were when you were born. You're faced with yourself. There's no running away.
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It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.
