Eileen Myles Quotes
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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As a kid, a little kid, I loved going to the movies, and now I love making movies.
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You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
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The account of a man who sells his shadow is in actual fact the life story of a persecution complex, that is to say, the paranoid narration of a man who through one event or another is suddenly made aware of his infinite smallness and at the same time finds the means by which to deceive the world in general, concerning this discovery.
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The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
