Cate Marvin Quotes

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

Cate Marvin

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• To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Friends
  • Black
  • Rock

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Women
  • Better
  • Discriminated

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.

  

  Freddie Freeman

• I see my work, as being determined by the fact that I was born in 1936.

  

  Frank Stella
  • Work

• Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.

  

  Douglas William Jerrold

• Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Writers

• I always tried to work hard and stay focused, and just use one opportunity to contribute to the next.

  

  T.I.
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Use

• There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • People
  • Business
  • Doubt

• I don't want to be Angelina Jolie. Not that Angelina Jolie is not the most talented, beautiful, successful, amazing, admirable person who does good things for the world, but I don't want to be a movie star like that.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • World
  • Good
  • Movie

• First Sergeant P. Andrew McKenna served our nation with distinction. All Rhode Islanders are grateful for his service, and our prayers are with his family and loved ones, we havelost a patriot and ahero.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • Family
  • Service
  • Prayers

• Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Power
  • Sun
  • Rays

• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

  Laura Trott
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  • Inspiration
  • Lose

• The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Passion
  • Reason
  • Fuels

• To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • Right

• One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.

  

  Cate Marvin
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