Eileen Myles Quotes
I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.Eileen Myles
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
Mandy Patinkin -
I'm not a control freak.
Fiona Apple -
The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan -
Golf is not easy.
Yani Tseng -
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
Larry Niven
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All of us grow.
Foster Friess -
There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.
Halima Aden -
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
Nancy Gibbs -
That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
Hans Jonas -
You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.
Captain Beefheart -
What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
Oliver North
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They hate whom they fear.
Quintus Ennius -
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Garrison Keillor -
I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.
Sally Struthers -
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
Oliver Joseph Lodge -
Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
Abraham Verghese -
I did not think I would be able to do myself justice if I had to speak to the players in English. I would not be able to get my emotions and feelings across.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I think it's so important in preschool and in kindergarten and elementary school that we're not biasing ourselves.
Megan Smith -
I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.
Bram Stoker -
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us 'bad' people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
Christopher Lee -
Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It allowed me to write songs that surprised me, and in fact, inspired me.
Ingrid Michaelson -
I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.
Eileen Myles