C.D. Wright Quotes
It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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I believe accurately remembering - and honoring - our whole past is the first step in governing in a way that effectively represents the whole America.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
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We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.
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Just taught my kids about taxes by eating 38% of their ice cream.
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For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
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Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.
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It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.
