Erin McKeown Quotes
The only really weird part for me was making sense of the person on the TV at the same time as the person who I am friendly with and do something so friend-intimate with as text.
Quotes to Explore
-
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there's this strange thing: you're never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.
-
I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
-
I'm intrigued by what video can do. It can endear you to a song that might pass your ears otherwise. You remember interesting imagery. It can change your perspective.
-
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.
-
We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.
-
They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once.
-
A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
-
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be pardoned to him all venial sins which he may have committed up to that hour.
-
It's easier to be brave when you're not alone.
-
Things like that become a blur - shot at some soundstage, somewhere - that's as much as I can remember.
-
If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
-
The other main difference between film and television is that you have the opportunity to flush out a character, over a longer period of time. Whereas with a film, you're confined to two or three hours, or whatever it may be.
-
Someone once told me that God figured that I was a pretty good juggler. I could keep a lot of balls in the air at one time. So He said, "Let's see if he can juggle another one."
-
Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
-
Respect...is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique.
-
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.
-
Sometimes it has to do with other longings that are much more existential. Sometimes you go elsewhere not because you are not liking the one you are with; you are not liking the person you have become.
-
He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.
