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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I am an academic, and I have always made it clear that my ultimate home is in the realm of ideas.
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The SoCal weather can't be beat, but I just haven't quite been able to embrace the lifestyle.
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See," he began, leaning back into the booth, "I was at this car dealership today, and I saw this girl. It was an across-a-crowded-room kind of thing. A real moment, you know?" I rolled my eyes. Chloe said, "And this would be Remy?" "Right. Remy," he said, repeating my name with a smile. Then, as if we were happy honeymooners recounting our story for strangers he added, "Do you want to tell the next part?" "No," I said flatly.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.
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I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.
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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.
