William Stafford Quotes
You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
William Stafford
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
Malcolm Turnbull
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
Mallory Ortberg
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
Quintilian
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
Natalia Tena
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When ghetto living seems normal, you have no shame, no privacy.
Malcolm X
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
Manuel Puig
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Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.
Orson Scott Card
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I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
Kevin Eubanks
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It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.
D. H. Lawrence
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You can treat experience as a set of surprises on which to exercise your quirky self.
William Stafford