Natasha Trethewey Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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In Europe and Sweden, we see boobs on TV, and it's not a big deal. Everyone has them; everyone has seen them.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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I wonder if I maybe have a natural floatiness that comes through in everyone I play.
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I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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Everybody has their demons; everyone has their challenges.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I never listen to the radio. If it's bad, I make fun of it, and if it's good, I get jealous that I didn't think of it.
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I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.
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I wrote a few unsuccessful screenplays before I wrote 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.' I wrote them as television plays that never got made. I'm glad I wrote them - I think it was a good experience.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
