William H. Gass Quotes
Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
Quotes to Explore
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Some people ask, 'How do you attract the young and so many different people when your poetry is complicated and different?' I say, 'My accomplishment is that my readers trust me and accept my suggestions for change.'
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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Honestly, I never thought I'd actually be playing a teen lesbian. I didn't think it was going to go this far. But I'm glad that it did, because there have been a lot of fans who have expressed that they've been going through similar situations in their lives.
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Those athletes are not going to wear my headphones because I asked them.
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The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
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Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone — in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
