Lucille Clifton Quotes
To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin
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I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.
Kate Grenville
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
Fiona Apple
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.
Oliver Tambo
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
Origen
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A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.
Maren Morris
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Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.
William Cullen Bryant
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My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.
Carol Kane
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I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
Jim Cramer
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton