Tracy K. Smith Quotes

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1972

Topics

LifePoetryThinkingI CanDistance

America somehow thinks that leadership relates to governance, and it certainly does. But society is much bigger than governance, and some of the truly great leadership of our society is outside the governance arena.

Jim Leach

LeadershipGreatSocietyAmerica

Everytime I get offered theatre I get offered a film role too.

Melissa George

TheatreFilmGetRoleTooEverytime

I just think I'm the average all-American girl.

Meghan McCain

GirlThinkAverageJustAll-American

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Ron Kind

EducationQualityHigher Education

When I start writing these novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Ruth Ozeki

GoodBeginningWritingStartYouGo

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

Rolf Harris

DoingNobodyAlwaysThingsDifferent

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

TodayMirrorAliveDutyHandOwn

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

Don Cheadle

ChangePotentialNeverAwareness

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

Chris O'Dowd

LivePowerGreatGoForeverOff

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

Conrad Burns

HomeWomenTodayFreedomMenBrave

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

Claire Denis

ExperiencePeopleThinkBornKnow

I know a lot of artists say this, but it's hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There's no tricks.

Bruno Mars

MyselfBelievePlaceKnowSayWrite

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