T. S. Eliot Quotes
The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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Rushdie is a hostage.
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Seeing someone else perform and letting me be the critic for once... that's not a bad thing.
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I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.
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The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion.
