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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It's funny, I listen to friends who talk about back when they were 14, eight, 16, whatever, as if it was yesterday. Me, I've no idea what I did. It's all a blur, I'm afraid.
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In Hollywood, for me, it's all about the movie stars and the singers. Baseball players don't draw too much attention; we're low key. I'm good with faces and sometimes bad with names, but I'll walk up to somebody if I know who they are... show them some love.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.
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The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my familys relationship with each other.
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The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.
