Brenda Hillman Quotes

The kinds of things that poetry can offer are timeless - mainly the kind of compression it offers of powerful language, powerful feelings and images, and, you know, the inner experience becoming outer.

Brenda Hillman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 27, 1951

Topics

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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

Jimmy Carter

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To be a leader, you have to make people want to follow you, and nobody wants to follow someone who doesn't know where he is going.

Joe Namath

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Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Ann Landers

TodayValuePeoplePriceKnowMany

By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

Silvio Scaglia

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People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

Louise Brown

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One of the arguments I make for the failure of the euro is that, at the time it was being constructed, there was a 'neo-liberal' ideology which said that all we need to do to make this thing work is to get deficits low, keep inflation low, and take down barriers, and then everything would be fine.

Joseph Stiglitz

WorkFailureTimeDownSaidNeed

As long as I can play at a certain level, that's what I'll do.

Dimitri Payet

LongI CanPlayLevelCertain

I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.

Dinaw Mengestu

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The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

Douglas Engelbart

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I love cats.

Dick Van Patten

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I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

Brie Larson

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I'm an enemy of exposition. I feel there's no need to overstate.

Anson Mount

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