Elaine Equi Quotes

In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

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• I'm the kinda person, you gotta fight for everything you get. You gotta believe in yourself.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Believe
  • Fight
  • Believe In Yourself

• I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Career
  • Movies
  • Divorce

• I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Story
  • Inspired

• With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Time
  • World
  • Want

• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Mom
  • Child
  • Crying

• I love music; it's my passion.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Music
  • Love
  • Passion

• You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Love
  • Fact
  • Asking

• I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

  

  Alan Alda
  • May
  • Play
  • I Think

• It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

  

  Lee Meriwether
  • Way
  • Role
  • Series

• Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • inspirational
  • Values

• The origin of corruption in politics is surely in the thought that you are the bearer of ultimate virtue.

  

  B. W. Powe

• I kinda got touched a little bit. It wasn't serious. Play like that at the end of the game, you can't put that on the refs. We got a bad bounce.

  

  Andrew Brown
  • Bad
  • Game
  • Play

• A true diva is graceful, and talented, and strong, and fearless and brave and someone with humility.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • True
  • Strong
  • Brave

• The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Heart
  • Ocean
  • Devotion

• George Carlin is kind of my template now because George Carlin before was straight laced regular comic and he had short hair, a tie, suit, nightclub guy. Then he said screw it, let his hair grow, just started telling what he thought was the truth. So that's what I'm trying to do.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Guy

• With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Music
  • House
  • Singing

• Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Girl
  • Alone
  • Right

• I'm suggesting that we abolish the social function of prisons.

  

  Angela Davis
  • Function
  • Prisons
  • Abolish

• In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Function
  • Poem
  • Machine