W. S. Merwin Quotes
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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I do my best to stay away from dairy, especially ice cream. I've become a cookie monster whenever I want to mess around and eat something cheap.
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A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets.
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The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry.
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I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
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The matriarchal society is thus the decadent and broken. The strongly matriarchal character of Negro life is due to the moral failure of Negro men, their failure to be responsible, to support the family, or to provide authority. The same is true of American Indian tribes which are also matriarchal today.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
