A. R. Ammons Quotes
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
Queen Latifah
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
Walter Gropius
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
C. S. Forester
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
Garrett Hedlund
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
Aaron Klein
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
Colin Greenwood
Radiohead
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
Adam Richman
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… who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.
Brenda Holloway
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My own career was undoubtedly determined, not by my own will but by various factors over which I have no control-primarily those mysterious glands in which Nature prepares the very essence of life, our internal secretions.
Albert Einstein
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If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
A. R. Ammons