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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You know, a lot of people have an instinct to downplay the fact that they are performing and be, like, 'There is no theatre here. This is just me playing the songs.' At some point I just realised how much better it could be if you weren't shy about being a performer.
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Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.
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One of the most harmful things in the music industry is 'record-by-committee,' where 10 people from the label gather around, and they make you write a 100 songs and decide which one's a hit. That takes the inspiration out of it.
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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People in love look into each other's souls, and it is that feeling that I try to capture when I sing.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
