Eileen Myles Quotes
Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
Barbara Sukowa
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In the future, officials will feel more pressure to protect the environment. But how to assess the officials' efforts to protect the environment is still a pivotal issue.
Ma Jun
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
Malin Akerman
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
Laura Innes
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Karen Kain
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
Taiye Selasi
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butler
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head
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I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
Ralph Lauren
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
Abby Wambach
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
V. S. Naipaul
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
Patricia Millett
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
Daniel Barenboim
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
Sam Underwood
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A woman simply is, but a man must become.
Camille Paglia
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
Laura Donnelly
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Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson
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If I ever uttered one word that I said in 'Kick-Ass', I would be grounded for years! I'd be stuck in my room until I was 20! I would never in a million years say that.
Chloe Grace Moretz
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Successful people save in prosperous times so they have a financial cushion in times of recession.
Brian Tracy
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Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
John Roy Anderson Yes
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I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!
Natasha Henstridge
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Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
Eileen Myles