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Robert Morgan Quotes

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: 1944

Topics

Poetry Writing Important Excitement

I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Time Hobby Seriously Years Take Six

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

God Heart Medical People Grace You

Acting has changed since the nineteen-forties.

Robert Gottlieb

Acting Changed Since

Most people don't even know what a trombone is. It's not that popular as a front instrument... I picked it up and fell in love with it as a kid. It's a difficult instrument, but I like doing things that seem impossible.

Trombone Shorty

Love People Impossible Doing Know

I don't get to watch a lot of TV, mainly because I'm busy working. And I pretty much try not to watch very much television at all, even American television, until I'm done with a season, because things start to creep into my head otherwise.

Start Busy American Television Done

A lot of people start by learning other people's songs, but the idea of singing someone else's music didn't excite me. I just wanted to write my own. It was really bad to begin with. It's improved slightly since.

Learning Music People Singing Start

You know a lot, but you don't know everything.

You Know Everything Lot

The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.

Monica Bellucci

Time City Breakfast Me London First

I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.

Juan Pablo Di Pace

Thinking Remember You Want Watching

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Jean Baudrillard

Evil World Reconciliation Principle

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.

People Gold Think Doubt Down Write

When you get put in a position like that, to shave off the hair of the boss of the company, they're putting a lot of faith in you, and they believe in you.

Faith Boss Hair Believe You Company

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