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Donald Hall Quotes

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018

Topics

Poetry Door Dangerous Write Bedroom

If somebody says, 'That's Elon's mum,' which happens quite a bit, they are usually stunned; sometimes they cry. I'm flattered because, I mean, to them, he's saving the world. They just feel he's the only hope.

Hope World Feel Sometimes Cry Mean

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Business Evil Problem Serious Just

My mother as a young girl went out with a young SS officer and she didn't really know what was going on - she just liked the uniform. When he told her about the things that he did, she was disgusted and broke up with him.

Mother Girl Uniform Know Young She

By the beginning of the 21st century, entrepreneurs, led by Web and mobile startups, began to seek and develop their own management tools.

Beginning Management Tools Own Web

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

Character Adventure Song You Place

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

Douglas Rushkoff

Sports Money Win Long Creating Way

There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of reality that is. I think partly it's based on some idea that comics are what everybody wants to read - and I don't think that's the case.

Think Reality Kind Peculiar Sure

I was a business major, but the more I played music and the more I got into songwriting, I realized this is what I loved, but I kept asking myself, 'Is this what I'm supposed to do - move to Nashville?'

Business Music Myself Loved Asking

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Me Confused America Class Middle

We shift in our everyday life; we evolve, depending on the circumstances.

Percelle Ascott

Life Circumstances Everyday Evolve

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Poetry Never Abandoned Poem Only

The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s, had sort of begun to percolate up to public consciousness this enormous interest in the law.

Past Law American Late Up Interest

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