Anthony Hecht Quotes
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.
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As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
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It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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People feel that I became an actor because I am from a film family and that my parents were actors. But actually, the only reason I wanted to become an actor was to get away from studies.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
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Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.
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The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
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The Cold War was a boring thing. Nobody gets better for it. Tremendous money is wasted. Our lives get more difficult. We look at each other as enemies. What's good in that? In any case, I will do anything in my power in order to stop another Cold War, with the U.S. or any other country in the world.
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age had no use for it, and the kind of Latin poetry that does rhyme - as for instance the medieval 'Carmina Burana' - tends to be somewhat crude stuff in comparison with the classical verse that doesn't.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
