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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You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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I'm almost 60. I've been doing this for a while. In order to do this for that long, you have to make decisions based on lots and lots of different criteria, you know. I mean, the criteria has to shift, especially if you're an actress.
Holly Hunter
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People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.
Martina Navratilova
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There will be Apple Glass, and Google Glass, and RIM Glass. These companies are all working on glass. I think everyone is going to be making glass. I think we're also going to have a glass war instead of a smartphone war.
Steve Mann
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If I have to be compared to somebody, it is to Martha Stewart.
Cristina Saralegui
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To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.
Lucille Clifton