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

• He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

  

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Himself
  • Mistaken
  • Imagines

• Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Pleasure
  • Lead
  • Function

• A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Party
  • Machine
  • Baloney

• If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Mean
  • Function
  • Structure

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

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Function
  • Poem
  • Machine