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Robert Pinsky Quotes

When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever reason, I became scornful and resistant to and angry about that. And some other time in my life, I realized that there's a lot I loved in television.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Family Age Time Angry Loved

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Heart Best Thinking Die You Lose

We all want something else other than what we have and don't realize what you got works. It works. It does work. You gotta work. Marriage is work. Marriage is a career. It's not an adventure.

Work Marriage Adventure You Career

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Myself Song Think Say Reason Afraid

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

Robert Falcon Scott

Journey Great Past Death Writing

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.

People Me Doing Finding Know Asking

I'm not, like, always focused; I'm very unfocused. I'm reading, and then I'm looking at my phone, and then I'm on the Internet.

Looking Reading Internet Phone Like

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Friend Me Band Turn Started Mine

Rock stars are good at making noise.

Good Stars Rock Noise Making

At SBI, we say that if you need a project to be done, you need to be determined that it needs to be done, put a deadline, and it will get done.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

You Done Say Will Project Need

Women's currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Women Woman Powerful Looks Currency

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Control Game You Run Clock Ball

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York for the summer doing modeling and commercials and auditioning for Broadway. The mother I lived with for the summer taught me how to drop my Southern accent.

Mother New York Me Doing New Living

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