Amy Gerstler Quotes

With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.

Amy Gerstler

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PoetryOutsideBreathingScaredFans

When I was in college, I worked at a state hospital that was a dumping ground for all manner of the criminally insane and 'mental defectives' as they called them back then. It was a horrible place, like Arkham, mostly in terms of total neglect of the inmates, so I wanted to write an Arkham story.

Ann Nocenti

CollegeStoryBackPlaceHospital

Poor Andy Nave was killed. He refused to surrender and was shot by Dick Fields. I felt sorry as he used to be quite friendly towards me before the war, but it could not be helped.

Stand Watie

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I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.

Tom Ford

MyselfDayFindBathPrepareManner

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Dolly Parton

MusicWordsSayingYouBadCountry

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

Denise Mina

PoliticsYouNobodyOfficeAnything

Getting the chance at 40 to make up stories that other people would draw and other people would then read is pretty weird.

Chris Roberson

PeopleChanceWeirdUpPrettyWould

I like a girl who laughs a lot. That's my main thing.

Cody Linley

GirlWhoLikeLaughsMainThing

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

Anthony Hopkins

PeopleMeYouToo MuchSayAsk

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

Persis Khambatta

GoodMeConfidentCareerKnowFar

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.

Payne Stewart

LiveWorldEnvironmentEnoughYou

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

Serge Schmemann

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I'm not a super dribbler.

Thomas Muller

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