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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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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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I think a lot of kids I've met in L.A. trying to act want to escape working long days and think acting is all photoshoots and red carpets.
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I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.
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What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.
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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.
