Carolyn Kizer Quotes
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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There are lot memories to take home but the most emotional moment has been when I was touching down in New Delhi. Tears rolled down when I saw the red soil in Delhi from the plane.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.
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I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the genre that serves as the basis for my practice as a writer.
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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.
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Before you get to 'SNL,' you have your own sensibility. And when you get to 'SNL,' it's the show's sensibility.
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The army is always the same. The sun and the moon change. The army knows no seasons.
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If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.
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A race cannot be purified from without.
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Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.
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We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
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I'm a little unconventional; I do things a little differently.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I need to ask the questions the people at home want answered.
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You write for the people in high school who ignored you. We all do.
