Ada Limon Quotes
Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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I'm lucky in that I can't see myself doing an office job every day. I'm lucky that I can play my sport and go around the world without too much to worry about outside that. I think it's good to be happy with what you're doing.
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I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.
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Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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During a transformation, it's understandable to be hesitant about moving too fast, especially at the outset.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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Historically, the 19th century is defined by annexations and internal turmoil. For instance, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 gave more than half of Mexican territory to the United States.
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Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.
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I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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I would love to be a mum if I'm blessed to have children. My wife and I have those plans.
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Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in his name.
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There's lots of Tolkien that must be confusing to people.
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I grew my dreadlocks 12 years ago because they give me the freedom to roll out of bed and not spend hours on my woolly, thick hair. I get tons of dropped jaws and compliments, so I reckon folks like them all right.
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For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
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By no means could I play at the level of these kids who play in the NHL now but as 50-year-olds go, I feel really good and I feel blessed that I'm still healthy.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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God uses all kinds of people to get us the help we need if we will just be aware and sensitive.
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Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.
