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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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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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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I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.
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To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.
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I’m curious about that myself! Obviously there’s more songs which I’ve been writing, and my approach is much the same. I’ll find out when I get back to it.
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I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.
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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.
