Eileen Myles Quotes
To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
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Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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The first thing I bought that was really stylish was in 1969 when I was eleven. I saved up for a black, grey and white tie-dye grandad vest. It was too big - they weren't catering for kids my age - and hung off me, but I loved it.
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Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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Live your life like one big Thank You!!!
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To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it.
