Eileen Myles Quotes
Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
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I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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I am who I am.
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I'm 20 years old, and I still love love. I hope I'm sweet. Just your everyday girl.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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Sometimes new voices have the most spectacular vision. It is uncluttered and organic.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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No one wants perfection. I want a confident, smart guy, obviously, but what's hot is a guy who doesn't have all the answers. We gals like a guy we can help because, ultimately, we like being needed.
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I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
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Even in the obscure vast history of a planet the time it takes to make a forest counts. It takes a while. And not every planet can do it; it is no common effect, that tangling of the sun's first cool light in the shadow and complexity of innumberable wind-stirred branches.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
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Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way.
