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Anne Stevenson Quotes

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american

Topics

Poetry You Weight Slowly Word Bears

Don't worry about the room being messy! Everything can't be perfect - you have to let some things go, and it's better to actually sit down on the floor with your child than spend time worrying about having a perfect house.

Andie MacDowell

Time Child Better Worry You Perfect

People change their positions all the time, the way they change their wives.

Change Time People People Change Way

I think people hate me pretty much across the board, which is nice. I mean, it's a pretty evenhanded loathing among a certain amount of the critical population, which used to be about 80 percent. So now I've gotten to the point where I just don't worry about it that much. It used to be very upsetting, now it's only mildly upsetting.

Michael Ian Black

Hate People Me Think Worry Nice

I think it is in collaboration that the nature of art is revealed.

Nature Art Collaboration Think

I'm a fan of characters wherever they come from. Truth be told, I wasn't a big comic book fan growing up. Maybe that helps me bring a fresh perspective to things because I'm not trying to match anything that's been done in the past.

Roger Craig Smith

Truth Perspective Past Me Growing Up

Boy, you gotta be real sick to get this much attention.

Sick Attention You Boy Real Be Real

This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.

Problem Result Unions Right Everyone

When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish.

Sick Doing You Body Your Body Get

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Live Age Think Mediocrity I Think

I've had a bacon chocolate bar before, and it was really good.

Good Chocolate Bar Bacon Before Had

The challenge for me is to make sure I've done my work. To make sure not every scene is quiet, that other scenes rise up, that there's different tension.

Me Story See Up Get Caught

I wouldn't be able to do the things I do if I hadn't been around and seen the stuff my brothers did.

Things Seen Been Able Stuff Did

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