Alice Notley Quotes
We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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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.
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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.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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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!
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He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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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.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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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.
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I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through belief in the Thrones, Through confession of the Oneness Towards the Creator.
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Marijuana is … self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?
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'Easier, lad, with those soft small bodies....Nothing to it. They're just soft squashy things.'
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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist.
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I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.
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Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
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We must calm the mind of the common man, and tell him to abstain from the words and even the passions which lead to insurrection.
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Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness.
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Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
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You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
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We name us and then we are lost, tamed. I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness.
