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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
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.
-
There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
-
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.
-
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.
-
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.
-
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!
-
It's actually harder to write a fun song.
-
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
-
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.
-
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
-
I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
-
Gender equality and women's empowerment have been a top priority for me from day one as Secretary-General. And I am committed to making sure that the U.N. leads by example.
-
In any relationship, when you go through any big change, you struggle to find your new constellation, your new ground. It takes a while to determine what the new relationship between you is.
-
If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to.
-
As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.
-
Well, maybe it was just that I wasn't going to like anybody because I had to work and I had to explain to my teachers why I wasn't keeping up. I'd fall asleep and things in class and they'd lecture me about the reality of their classroom. I said, 'You want to see my reality?' I opened up my backpack to where you usually keep your pencils. That's where I kept my bills... electric bills, rent... That was my reality.
-
...a professor in one of the great female colleges. That odious form is common, and I submit and use it, though it offends me as much as it would to say female brickbat or female snow-storm or female geography.
-
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.
