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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I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.
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Everyone is broken a little, I think, and the most broken of all are those who pretend they are not.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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(The Eurozone) resembles a fine riverboat that was launched on a still ocean in 2000. And then the first storm that hit it, in 2008, started creating serious structural problems for it. We started leaking water. And of course, the people in the third class, as in the Titanic, start feeling the drowning effects first.
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Use PMA: Positive Mental Actitude.
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Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.
