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 admire Freud a great deal as a person and thinker. Despite everything, I find his work very, very rich, but I think that for women he has been absolutely disastrous. And even more so, everyone who came after him.
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.
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We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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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.
