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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Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's a sad facet, poetry can make it more poignant.
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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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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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With DNA, the ability to find out a lot more with a lot less has increased our ability for identification.
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I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
