W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.
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I promise to do everything I can to earn back the trust of everyone I've disappointed.
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It's important for cinema to keep on evolving: for people, and not only teenagers, to be able to go to a movie that has huge epic scope but has an intellectual and real story to tell.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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A company logo may be the last thing cost-conscious CEOs focus on when they're looking to jump-start growth. Which is perhaps why it took more than two decades for White Mountain Footwear, a privately held shoe manufacturer based in Lisbon, N.H., to finally give its own emblem some serious thought.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I know feeling pressure gets you nowhere creatively. You've just got to understand the character, understand the story, and just play it to the fullest extent.
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All that we are not stares back at what we are.
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Well, you can't argue with somebody that won't argue back.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
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Recently, I looked back at my first manuscripts and was struck by the lack of space, of breath. That's exactly how it felt, back then... like I was suffocating.
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I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small fraction of those who declare that they are religious. They just happen to be a very vocal fraction, so you got the impression that there are more of them than there actually is.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
