Elaine Equi Quotes
I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
Quotes to Explore
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I love shopping, but I can't go out. I love going to restaurants and eating out with friends.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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We actors have it pretty easy and pretty hard. Easy 'cause we have a meal provided to us every 6 hours every day and craft services. The hard part is staying fit under those circumstances.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
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You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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Tiger the dog had a showdown with a fast moving flower truck in the middle of the street and lost.
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You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
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I really, truly appreciate Conor McGregor's style - his fighting style and the way he talks. The reason why is because he reminds me of a young Mike Tyson, a young Muhammad Ali, the way he talks.
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I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
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There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.
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When parents ask why there are still so few girls in advanced science and math classes in high school, I tell them, because girls still need way more encouragement than boys to take those courses.
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I'm a pretty big Ricky Gervais fan.
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I have a lot of male friends.
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The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
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I think I'm quite a lazy person, actually. If I'm not careful, I could just stay in bed all day.
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When I go on 'The View,' or any of those talk shows, you really don't get to say what you want to say.
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There's a big overlap with the people you meet at the fantasy and science fiction cons.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
