Epes Sargent Quotes
True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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Fashion is a way of not having to decide who you are. Style is deciding who you are and being able to perpetuate it.
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My brothers and sister and me grew up making fun of each other, the way we'd speak or move. When we get together, everyone's funny, quick, loud, and speaks on top of each other. It was like a great comedy school; nothing is precious.
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I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
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Definitely for writing, what inspires me is poetry, which I have next to me all the time because I think they're doing what I'm doing, but much harder, more condensed. It's the same job, but they're more talented. All of them. So I just steal openly from them.
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Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.
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True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.
