Nancy Lublin Quotes
Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
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I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I have rules for everything.
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Everything has to evolve. Music has to go somewhere. That's what keeps it fresh.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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Time will heal everything.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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I think poetry always lives its life, and people come to it and people go away from it, 'people' in the sense of larger numbers of people. It's as though you begin to think that poetry is a resource, and that at certain times people seem to need it or want it or can find sustenance in it, and at other times they can't.
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The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
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We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
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It used to be you wanted to marry up.
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
