Diane Wakoski Quotes

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Diane Wakoski

Recitation: by Male by Female

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A lot of stuff I do out of pure obsessiveness.

Jerry Seinfeld

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It's very difficult to release an X-rated movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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If I play against you the first time - or it doesn't even have to be the first time - and you want to be all physical and just talk, or talking trash or whatever, it just gets me going.

Joel Embiid

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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Mel Brooks

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I think that for me as a person, it's very easy for me to hear, 'It's too difficult.' Or, 'You're not easy to cast.' And, 'You're not beautiful,' and this and that.

Melanie Lynskey

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There is a whole aspect of freedom to recording at home that you don't get in a studio. The possibilities are infinite, and there is no reason not to explore them.

Jeff Mangum

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I like my privacy, and my personal bank manager is one of my favourite people.

Amanda Eliasch

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The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Steven Spielberg

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The formation of glass from the melting is like starting a clock. It resets the time for us to determine billions of years later.

Robert Duncan

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To be in front of an audience and pretending, and to lie, this is the principle of acting.

Roberto Benigni

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I think being in the right mindset is a huge challenge for women, who often take an all-or-nothing approach to working out or eating well.

Mary Helen Bowers

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Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

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