Richard L. Evans Quotes
Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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My health is fine.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
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People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long.
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You're not born woke. Something wakes you up.
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Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us.
