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.Carolyn Kizer
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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.
Dan Quayle -
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.
Camilla Lackberg -
I don't take story input from fans.
Katey Sagal -
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.
Naomie Harris -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
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.'
Edith Stein
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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.
Jack Keane -
But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
Beatrice Wood -
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.
Hal David -
There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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.
Zoey Deutch -
I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
Mandy Patinkin
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
Nas -
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.
Harriet Harman -
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.'
Tananarive Due -
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.
Barbara Mandrell -
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.
Gavyn Davies -
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?
Rachel Nichols
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People who want to be a star get their teeth capped. People who want to be an actor get to work.
Gary Ross -
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
Calvin Trillin -
One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.
William Hazlitt -
I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.
Imtiaz Ali -
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.
Carolyn Kizer