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.
Eileen Myles
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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.
Vance Joy
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!
Hansika Motwani
It's actually harder to write a fun song.
Taryn Manning
Boomkat
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
Bartlett Sher
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.
Carlene Carter
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
Sam Wyly
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
Samuel Daniel
Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
Ted Kulongoski
'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
Salma Hayek
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.
Edna Ferber
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.
F. Gary Gray
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.
Samantha Morton
People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
Zig Ziglar
I'm not someone who's led my life trying to get publicity; I'd rather do my work and go home.
Kevin Spacey
I believe anything has to be possible. You have to be able to face any problem that comes along and unravel it into a solution.
Jon Oringer
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort.
Anohni
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.
Eileen Myles
