Carolyn Kizer Quotes
He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I don't take story input from fans.
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I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'
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I have a close association with Gen. Petraeus... What you get in Dave Petraeus is a very unique officer, a combination of intelligence, extraordinary depth of knowledge and understanding.
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But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
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Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
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There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
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You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.
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The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
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We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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Let us not be defeated by the tyranny of the world financial markets that threaten peace and democracy everywhere.
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My feeling is that, and I've been writing about my family over the years, although it might make them feel uncomfortable, people generally like to be written about. If I've written a song about the family, they enjoy being mentioned in the songs. Nobody's confronted me and said 'don't write any songs about me.
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I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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He said, "You have pigs in this poem; pigs are not poetic." I got up and walked out of that class and never went back.
