W. S. Merwin Quotes
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.W. S. Merwin
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
Rachel McAdams -
When you are dining with a demon, you got to have a long spoon.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
Otis Williams The Temptations -
To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
Halima Aden -
The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.
Vince Cable -
Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso -
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
Camille Paglia -
I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
Eddie Redmayne -
I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
G-Eazy -
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy -
For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.
Laura Schlessinger
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Yoko Ono -
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West -
When I was a kid, in a very white boarding school in England in the '90s, I had this sort of middle part that kids had - that sort of long, floppy hair. So I was always desperate to have long, floppy hair, and I would try and brush it and spray it, and it would just look like a Brillo pad!
Ed Weeks -
I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
Samuel Larsen -
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden -
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
Gary Bauer
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When you mess up, what are you going to do? Just keep going. And speak loudly.
Brandon Victor Dixon -
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
Charles Stanley -
Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.
Billy Sherwood Yes -
Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all.
Brian Tracy -
I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the day, it's just somebody's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They have a particular process, and they're welcome to do it however they want to do it.
Alex Lifeson Rush -
Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.
W. S. Merwin