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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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
