Robert Pinsky Quotes

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or bar mitzvah or wedding, looking at a roomful of people moving their bodies around in time to what I was doing. There was a piano player, a bass player, a drummer, and my breath making the melody.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1940

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I guess you can consider photo shoots modeling, but it's never really interested me. I find it somewhat boring, actually. It wouldn't be something I would do.

Jessica Lucas

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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

John Glenn

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When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Stevie Wonder

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I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is in most states in America today.

Tom Coburn

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'Take Her Up to Monto' is a very satirical song. I don't really like people calling it a folk song because it kind of isn't. It's a bit cheeky calling it 'Take Her Up to Monto,' but the whole idea was to be very irreverent.

Roisin Murphy

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When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.

Mary Berry

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Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great voices of contemporary literature, believes a struggle only makes a person stronger.

Michael N. Castle

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I mean, I suppose when I'm in London, I'm home so I'm more comfortable.

Jourdan Dunn

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In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Don McLean

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I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.

Dree Hemingway

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I buy very little of what's sold to me in the church. Very, very little.

Delilah

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Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.

CM Punk

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