Eileen Myles Quotes
Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
Quotes to Explore
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The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
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History will treat me right.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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At 52 and unaltered, people tell me I look good for my age. This is not the same as being told you're beautiful.
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Detroit... where 'mother' is half a word.
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In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.
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I feel much safer knowing that's where my son is going.
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For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.
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Poetry and novels are lists of our devotions. We love the feel of making the marks as the feelings are rising and falling.
