Eileen Myles Quotes
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world.
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I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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I think, probably when I was 15 or so, I was going through a really hard time with my family, and I just felt really helpless - I didn't know how to put anything I was feeling into words, and I was really confused, and I felt like nobody would hear me, but I didn't even know what to say.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.
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Poetry always, always, always is a key piece of democracy.
