Anne Stevenson Quotes

I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

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• Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Yourself
  • Changing
  • Analysis

• If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • People
  • Kind
  • Spirit

• When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Way
  • Tough

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Great
  • Religion
  • Sin

• I went to Phoenix, Arizona for 'Angel Unchained,' and they'd hire the bike gang from Phoenix to be extras in the movie.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Movie
  • Angel
  • Bike

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Different
  • Sing
  • Breath

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Change
  • Day

• I moved out to Los Angeles a fan of many people, and meeting people I put on a pedestal that just disappointed me. Without fans, this business would not exist, so I try and say that we're all on the same level.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Business
  • Same

• I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've had to create my own way of writing, which isn't typical. Everything's a big crescendo.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Guitar

• Only in death will I relinquish my belts.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Death
  • Will
  • Belts

• Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • God
  • Years
  • Word

• Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

  

  Ed Case
  • Want
  • Change
  • Vote

• The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Family
  • Happiness

• I could have gone on flying through space forever.

  

  Yuri Gagarin
  • Space
  • Forever
  • Flying

• I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • People
  • Real
  • Confidence

• If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

  

  John Sandford

• I think it's an impulse for human beings to want to suffer less, and we're kind of addicted to comfort at all costs - at least, I am.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up. Longitudinal studies following thousands of people across time have shown that most people only begin to gravitate toward certain vocational interests, and away from others, around middle school.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Right after 'Backspacer,' my best friend got killed tragically. Something happened to me then where I got super motivated. I had a shelf of all this unfinished music... So I just went to work and made a conscious decision that I was going to finish a bunch of stuff. Life's short.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• I think a poet, like a painter, should be a craftsperson.

  

  Anne Stevenson