C.D. Wright Quotes
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I cannot imagine how I will cope when I discover that my life is behind me, has already happened, and I have nothing to show for it. No treasure house of collection, no wealth of experience, no accumulated wisdom to pass on. What are we, if not an accumulation of our memories?
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I love to run. It's how I clear my head.
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I want to put elements from movies into TV to raise the quality of TV.
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When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for.
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It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.
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Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
