Alice Notley Quotes
I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.
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When I hear theists and atheists pontificating on how they know God does or does not exist, I can only smile at the irrationality and, yes, vanity of the notion.
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I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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We are anxious and open to all forms of doing business in China.
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A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
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I respect women to the utmost.
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Every day I do something that freaks me out.
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I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.
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Johnny Marcone: Do you know what I think?Harry Dresden: You think we should shoot Nicodemus in the back at the first opportunity and let Michael dismember him.Marcone: Yes. I drew my gun.Harry Dresden: Okay.
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Afterwards, when Clavain tried to imaging how he might describe it, he found that words were never going to be adequate for the task. And that was no surprise: evolution had shaped language to convey many concepts, but going from a single to a networked topology of self was not amongst them.
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Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.
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I do utterly despise dailiness as it stands. I can't abide what the world has become, the frozen-ness of our product this evil thing that we kiss the ass of every hour. I want a dailiness that is free and beautiful.
