Diane Wakoski Quotes

I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers.

Diane Wakoski

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I asked Dalai Lama the most important question that I think you could ask - if he had ever seen Caddyshack.

Jesse Ventura

ThinkYouImportantQuestionAskHe

The difference between great actors and the rest of us isn't simply that they know how to make more out of less, but that, like lions at the watering hole, they will always take more than their share from the pool of available resources - extra air from the room, added knowledge from our faces.

John Burnham Schwartz

KnowledgeGreatRestPoolKnowWill

It's important for Asian American kids to see themselves in stories and to feel seen. They need to know that their stories are universal, too, that they, too, can fall in love in a teen movie. They don't have to be the sidekick; they can be the hero.

Jenny Han

LoveHeroTeenAmericanFeelFall

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

John Krasinski

PartnerYouTroubleGoWantWrite

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.

John Lee Hooker

PeopleBackBluesNowTryMore

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

Tom Peters

YouPowerfulWantPresenceHaloOff

If I gave a damn what other people think of me, I would be more like other people.

Craig Bruce

PeopleMeThinkDamnMoreWould

Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Clare Balding

LifePeopleMeMy LifeTryingNow

I didn't know much about Texas when I moved there for graduate school. In my first or second semester, I took a class in life and literature of the Southwest, and that's where I first heard about these events along the border in 1915-1918, what Anglos called the Bandit Wars.

Philipp Meyer

LifeSchoolBorderTexasLiterature

The Roots know how to give their audience some medicine without them even realizing it.

Phoebe Robinson

RootsMedicineKnowAudienceWithout

I did try to write in Iraq, and I failed. I think you just don't have the brain space for it.

Phil Klay

SpaceBrainThinkYouTryWrite

You sort of have to become what you're wearing.

Pharrell Williams

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