Louise Glück Quotes
It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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Ever since it was announced that Ryan Murphy intended to produce 'The People v. O.J. Simpson,' I have been inundated with the question as to 'How do I feel about it?' All I can say is, for me, it was personally the most heartbreaking tragedy that altered my life forever.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
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I don't know why, but I'm continually amazed to think that two and a half billion of us around the world are connected to each other through the Internet and that at any point in time more than 30 percent of the world's population can go online to learn, to create and to share.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.
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I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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America that is divided against itself cannot stand, and we cannot say we have all of this unity they say we have when black people are being discriminated against in every city in America I have visited.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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During the off-season, I try to increase my practice sessions, and I am also training with my coaches.
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It seems to me in the past it's been a good thing, as a writer, to have experiences I hadn't expected.
