Randall Jarrell Quotes
People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.
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When I started Teach For America, I wasn't trying to come up with an idea that would change the world. I was trying to solve a problem much closer to home: I was a senior in college, and I had no idea what I was going to do with my life!
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I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I'm saying, and I track it.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.
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In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.
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People always ask: For whom does the poet write? He needs only to answer, For whom do you do good? Are you kind to your daughter because in the end someone will pay you for being?... The poet writes his poem for its own sake, for the sake of that order of things in which the poem takes the place that has awaited it.
