Eileen Myles Quotes
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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In the '80s, I got tired of the rat race. It was a terrible time for music. I wasn't part of that whole MTV craze. I did 'Go Ahead and Rain,' which was Madeleine Stowe's first bit, but felt no connection to it. I went many years where I didn't have to work.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
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In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky.
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I don't want to leave people thinking they've merely seen another actor using his same bag of tricks and fake charm.
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
