Eileen Myles Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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While the 20th century saw the world divided between a Communist East and a free and democratic West, new and different struggles define the 21st.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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When I do work, I feel the same sort of urgency as I ever did. If I didn't feel that, I don't think I would wish to be doing it. I wouldn't really see the point.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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I'm from a small town in North Carolina and went to a small college and didn't think that someone like me could make a living in L.A. doing comedy. I worked hard, especially in college, but at that age, you don't know what's next.
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I'm not sure if it was entirely sadness that caused the tears, but there was so much love. And that's all that mattered. Despite the fear, despite the sadness, despite the pain, there was love.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
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Pragmatism is not always a good thing. Experience is not always a good thing.
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I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor.
