Randall Jarrell Quotes
How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
Quotes to Explore
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Certainly, Africa accounts for only l % of world trade, and we cannot assure our development on our own.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
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I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Venus may be in the wrong juxtaposition with somewhere else.
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If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Most go to prison not on account of their irreducible uniqueness as people but because they are part of a marginalized sector of the population who never had a chance, who were slated for it early on.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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Increased sympathy for an Islamist cause, lack of integration, and the absence of acceptance of Muslims into British society makes it harder for Muslims to challenge Islamism and tough for non-Muslims to understand it.
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Time to be the sun and send forth flesh to heal the bones of time.
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Ever since I worked on 'Buffy', it's always helped me to find a genre container for something, and I was like, 'Oh, this is where the movie melodrama has gone to. It's gone to YA.'
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
