A. R. Ammons Quotes
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No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I don't know if I would say that I'm specifically a history buff. I do find a lot of things fascinating, especially anything that's bizarre or mysterious and unknown and we don't have all the answers for.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
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I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
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It was like being high when you reach those high notes.
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I have it in my head that when we’re born, God writes things down on our hearts. See, on some people’s hearts he writes happy and on some people’s hearts he writes sad and on some people’s hearts he writes crazy and on some people’s hearts he writes genius and on some people’s hearts he writes angry and on some people’s hearts he writes winner and on some people’s hearts he writes loser.
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God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
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I didn't really had a good answer, as so often -- is me. But then somebody sent me the other day, Isaiah 49:16, and you need to go home and look it up. Before you look it up, I'll tell you what it says though. It says, hey, if it was good enough for God, scribbling on the palm of his hand, it's good enough for me, for us. He says, in that passage, 'I wrote your name on the palm of my hand to remember you,' and I'm like, 'Okay, I'm in good company.'
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I am so behind on all TV, and I love TV, but I literally, I get home so late, and when I get some time, I'm trying to catch up on my DVR.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
