Allison Joseph Quotes

Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.

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• With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Performance
  • Greatest

• I feel like the phone was in my way. So I got rid of the phone to focus.

  

  Young Thug
  • Focus
  • Feel
  • Phone

• I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Idea
  • Rich
  • Authentic

• Only the film industry can make you an overnight success. Unlike other jobs where you have to work your way up, here you can reach dizzying heights of fame instantly.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Character
  • You
  • Yourself

• I can cure AIDS, and I will.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Will
  • I Can
  • Aids

• One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Different
  • Greatest

• We should love the body insofar as it is obedient and helpful to the soul, since the soul, with the body's help and service, is better disposed for the service and praise of our Creator and Lord.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Help
  • Soul
  • Service

• It's easy to photograph light reflecting from a surface, the truly hard part is capturing the light in the air.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Light
  • Air
  • Photograph

• What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Song

• Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Poet
  • Tell
  • Nobody

• I was surprised how much Andy Cohen reveal about his insecurities and your personal life.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Insecurity
  • Personal Life

• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Black
  • Religious

• The leading members of ISIS were either tortured in US military prisons or in the prisons of the Shi'a government which the Americans put in place.

  

  Yanar Mohammed
  • Government
  • Military
  • ISIS

• I have trouble describing characters because there is just too much going on in human beings.

  

  Lisa Kudrow
  • Human
  • Trouble
  • Characters

• At this stage, there is no reason why he would not be selected on the spring tour. Like every player in the squad, his performance during the winter season will be reviewed and evaluated but he is the current Australian captain and the right man to lead the team through this next period of time.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Why
  • Team

• Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which He brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Together
  • Opportunity

• Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Mankind
  • Form

• The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Words
  • Souls
  • Poem

• If you set the rate at 68 cents, it will damage the quality of education in Stafford. However, if it drops any lower, it will be devastating.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Education
  • Quality
  • Damage

• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Desire
  • Records
  • Interested

• Time steals from us the capacity to be smitten, does it not? It slowly but surely washes away all your enthusiasm and deposits uncertainty in its place.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • Time
  • Enthusiasm
  • Uncertainty

• Each poem seems to demand its own formal approach. In both drafting and revision, I'll play around with line lengths and stanza formations, eventually letting the poem settle into what I think is its own best form.

  

  Allison Joseph
  • Form
  • Approach
  • Poem