Eileen Myles Quotes
In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.
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My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
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Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children
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You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
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None of us has the right to assess the value of a human existence. All must be held valuable, or none. The death of Christ and the death of Socrates," Fen added dryly, "suggest that our judgements are scarcely infallible...And the evil of Nazism lay precisely in this, that a group of men began to differentiate between the value of their fellow-beings, and to act on their conclusions. It isn't a habit which I, for one, would like to encourage.
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In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.
