Robert Bringhurst Quotes

How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true.

Robert Bringhurst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: October 16, 1946

Topics

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People will come up to me and try and be secretive and say, 'Can you do the Gollum voice for me?' And I'm like, 'Are you kidding? It's 8:30 in the morning on the Victoria Line.'

Andy Serkis

MorningPeopleMeVoiceYouSay

I'm not exactly the type of actress who does half a dozen films a year.

Robin Wright

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If an individual sticks up a bank and walks off with $25,000, there are consequences. If someone who really could have had an insurance policy consumes $25,000 worth of health care, everyone else pays for that.

Ron Williams

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I think artists are scared to have same-gendered pronouns in their writing, and I don't think it's because they're scared to be out, because gay artists are visible, but they don't want to alienate an audience.

Mary Lambert

WritingThinkGayWantAudienceOut

The intensity with which Janis Joplin sings, you simply can't find a singer like that. It's almost scary the amount of emotion and energy and passion she puts into her performance.

Michael Wadleigh

PassionPerformanceEnergyYouFind

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Michel de Montaigne

WorldImageLikeCreatedHigher

When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.

Michael McKean

ProfitWayOutAgainTourFigure

The longer it takes to respond to a major development or crisis, the higher the chance of violence being seen as the only answer.

Miroslav Lajcak

ChanceViolenceCrisisDevelopment

Night was running ahead of itself.

Jorge Amado

NightAheadRunningItself

I like reading reviews. If they're clearly hating on you, I try not to read that deeply. But if they really are trying to understand, it's interesting.

Jon Favreau

ReadingInterestingTryingYouTry

My mom is a science teacher in high school, and one of my brothers works in optics at Bell Labs, and so I was always surrounded by it.

Anthony Doerr

ScienceTeacherSchoolMomHigh

Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.

William S. Cohen

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