Tracy K. Smith Quotes

I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what the imagination creates, not simply in explanation of what is there but also to explain or justify the feeling of awe and attachment that the heavens inspire.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Jerry Costello

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We all grew up aware of Agatha Christie; there is no writer more prolific than her in England.

Andrea Riseborough

MoreUpHerAwareWriterThan

I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.

Stanley Druckenmiller

WorkMeFinancialEconomicGoing

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.

Tom Wolfe

WaitLookSituationFirstSeeWalks

I was always involved in the arts from a young age. I started studying classical piano at age four as a student of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music.

Monica Raymund

MusicAgeSchoolStudentYoungArts

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

TimeActionFreeCameraSaidStage

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

Jonny Greenwood

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Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

Johnny Weir

GoodPeopleMeWorldChampionThink

The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.

Chris Chocola

HistoryFreeStoryTurnOutExist

Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast.

Colin Morgan

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Andrew Gurland is so precise and, again, such an amazing writer, but then he's also really honest with himself and what he is seeing.

Brett Gelman

AmazingSeeingHonestAgainWriter

I have a very non-existent, dysfunctional relationship with my biological mother.

Antoni Porowski

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