W. S. Merwin Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.
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Lottery tickets are a surtax on desperation.
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I don't go to premieres I'm not involved in.
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America has never taken me to its heart. I've always been an outsider.
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You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.
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I think Helen of Troy must have been pretty hot. She got two countries going crazy for 10 years over her.
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
