Cate Marvin Quotes

To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

Cate Marvin

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• Art
• Reason
• Imagination
• Special
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• Commodity

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• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
  • Protect

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
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• Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Beautiful
  • City
  • Thought

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
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  • City

• I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Fun
  • Try
  • Have Fun

• I'm tired of being considered property.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Tired
  • Being
  • Property

• When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Feel

• It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Interesting
  • Learning
  • Thought

• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Beginning

• I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Life

• This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

  

  Amiri Baraka

• Moana is an incredible heroine. She's strong... She's got her two feet firmly planted. She's definitely grounded.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • She
  • Strong

• I've been a vegetarian since I was about 12 years old. When I became a vegetarian, I got my mom and dad to become vegetarian, and my brother became a vegetarian.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Brother

• Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson

• I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.

  

  Keith B. Alexander
  • Good
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• None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and Vertue.

  

  Mary Astell
  • God
  • Nature
  • Fly

• Sparky Anderson taught me this a long time ago: 'There's three ways you can treat a person. You can pat 'em on the butt, you can kick 'em in the butt, or you can leave 'em alone.'

  

  Pete Rose
  • Time
  • Long
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• It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Time
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  • Nation

• Most people, in the end, really are all on their own.

  

  Nova Ren Suma
  • People
  • End
  • Own

• It was like I was Hannah Montana! I was a normal girl from Pittsburgh one minute and then a pop star the next!

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Girl
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• I don't think everyone is equally haunted by high school, but I also don't think it's unusual to be.

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  • School
  • High

• To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Reason