Eileen Myles Quotes
In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.
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The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
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You never know what the future brings.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?
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We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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In a time where there are divides between cultures and races, I would love to use my position to show that we are all the same inside and working together is the key to moving forward.
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In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.
