Alice Notley Quotes

We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.

Alice Notley

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• There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Question
  • Two
  • Sides

• 'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Just
  • Saying
  • Fat

• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Cool
  • Nothing
  • Punishment

• We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Work
  • President
  • Will

• The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.

  

  Ice T
  • Music
  • Acting
  • Yourself

• I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Content

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Perfect
  • Being
  • Very

• The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Fashion
  • Always
  • Loved

• It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Look

• Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Marijuana

• 'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Small

• The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.

  

  Anton Chekhov

• I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Up
  • Support

• I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

  

  Jenny Han
  • People
  • Movie
  • Teen

• Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Band

• The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • World
  • Free
  • Past

• Action, not words.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Words
  • Action

• What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

  

  Ann Reed
  • Words
  • Songs
  • Poem

• You make a film you feel is as real as possible and hope people react as though it were real.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • People
  • Real
  • Hope

• Your aunt and uncle will be proud, though, won't they?" said Hermione as they got off the train and joined the crowd thronging toward the enchanted barrier. "When they hear what you did this year?" "Proud?" said Harry. "Are you crazy? All those times I could've died, and I didn't manage it? They'll be furious.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Proud
  • Crazy
  • Uncle

• Like any decent researcher, I throw away 90% of my research.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland

• We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.

  

  Alice Notley
  • Words
  • Cure
  • Wildness