Charles Reznikoff Quotes
When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
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A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
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I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
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I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.
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Let's not be narrow, nasty, and negative.
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I've always loved mysteries, the something there that you didn't know, and with 'Case Histories' I just decide to make that more up-front.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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At readings, audience members sometimes ask if I keep writing past the two hours if I'm on a roll, but I don't. I figure that if I'm on a roll, it's partially because I know I'm about to stop.
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As an audience member, I like to watch what they're doing, and that's one of the reasons I love skating: because it's a performance, and I love to perform. That's my favorite aspect of skating.
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Mumbling priests swinging stick cans on their chains and even witch doctors conjuring up curses with a well-buried elephant tooth have a better sense of their places in the world. They know this universe is brimming with magic, with life and riddles and ironies. They know that the world might eat them, and no encyclopedia could stop it.
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When I was four years old my mother led me to the park. The spring sunshine was not too warm. The street was almost empty. The witch in my fairy-book came walking along. She stooped to fish some mouldy grapes out of the gutter.
