Eileen Myles Quotes
If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.
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I think it's very important to have a public discussion about why we're denying our soldiers the ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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You know, I have written about this and described it in many different settings, and I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign.
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Have you ever heard of 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?' I would like to play Sidney Poitier's role - I love that role.
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It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.
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If I had been a good student and an achiever, I might have been excited by a more systematic approach to writing than what I do.
