Dan Quisenberry Quotes
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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Boxing is a sport. We allow each other to hit each other, but I'm not treating my opponent like my enemy. We're doing a job to entertain people.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that. He gets this opportunity to tail these homicide detectives, and he's driven by that. He's a little immature, but he's obviously loving life.
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Olympics for me is love, peace, united.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.
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To get scared is something not in my personality.
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With each award we get, we become a little bit more overrated. That's what it feels like.
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When I started my writing process for 'Empty Bank,' everything had to do with money. It was at a time in my life where I started to see money differently.
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When I write, I try to capture one of those pivotal moments. If I succeed, I have shifted the reader's view of the world, just a little. The character is not the only one to experience change. That is my job, shifting perceptions, one story at a time. The trouble is, I don't like writing. But I love having written.
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Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
