Eileen Myles Quotes
The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches.
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My parents keep telling me to be thick-skinned in the industry. They tell me how people will put you up on a high platform and then bring you down. They also tell me to not believe in the image created by the hype.
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I've done every job in the world, and movies, the only thing close to a movie that I've ever done is it's kind of like being in a band.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.
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The only job that ever really worked for me was teaching because you are your own master once you get into the room. You just have to show up on time and talk about what you care about.
