Eileen Myles Quotes
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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We didn't gel with Poison and the Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi was the best of the pop metal bands, but we never fit in with the hair metal stuff. We were never as hip as the Chili Peppers. We were in the middle.
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I didn't really make up my mind to be an actor until I did 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer. I was about 17 or 18 when I did that, by which point I'd probably done a dozen or more movies or TV things, but 'The Hitcher' was the experience that made me want to study and commit and learn how to do this for my life.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
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My first love was acting. I went to Sidney Poitier films as a kid. I sat in the theater and dreamed of being an actor.
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.
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If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.
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Power to the peaceful.
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I've had tremendous success...I'm very lucky.
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There is no such thing as a false idea.
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There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.
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I can tell you I can work on four or five hours of sleep a night and cat nap all day, and I can go for 8 or 10 days on the road, and it doesn't seem to affect me.
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On the mission I brought a flag from China, I brought the stone sculpture from Hong Kong, and I brought a scroll from Taiwan. And what I wanted to do is, because as I was going up and I am this Chinese-American, I wanted to represent Chinese people from the major population centers around the world where there are a lot of Chinese people. And so, I wanted to bring something from each of those places and so it really wasn't a political thing and I hope people saw it that way. I was born here, I was raised in the U.S., and I'm an American first, but also very proud of my heritage.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
