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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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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There's no doubt in the world that directing makes you a better actor. Me, anyway. There's no doubt in the world that it makes me a more collaborative actor.
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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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I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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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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From the U.S. Capitol Building to the White House, our national symbols that represent freedom to so many of us, were built by people who were anything but free.
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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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There is a big difference between just learning something, and actually LIVING what you learn.
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If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.
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Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
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I definitely love when things get gritty and they get a bit dirty!
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"The work of art must seize upon you...carry you away."
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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.
