W. S. Merwin Quotes
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Writing for the theatre is so different to writing for anything else. Because what you write is eventually going to be spoken. That's why I think so many really powerful novelists can't write a play - because they don't understand that it's spoken - that it hits the air. They don't get that.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
