Anne Stevenson Quotes
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
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My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.
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I can't relate to skinny, perfectly sculptured, tanned men singing about gold chains and Ferraris because I'm not that way.
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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I give people what they want in the hope that they will begin to want what I want to give them!
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I knew what kind of actor I was going to be, and I looked for inspiration to people like Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Timothy Spall and Jim Broadbent. I looked at them and thought, 'They play human beings as they really are.'
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.
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When I came into television, the serials were all women-centric, while the men had to stand around like furniture. I wasn't willing to be a prop in serials. To my good fortune, I got serials where I was a central character.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.
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My dream is to have a creativity barn, in my back yard, which is full of musical instruments and every kind of paint and oils and paper, and you can just go in and make something.
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There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
