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Allen Tate Quotes

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

Allen Tate

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979

Topics

Dreams Great I Am Poetry Three More

After 25 years sitting on my own in a room, I was looking for a more companionable job and wanted to work more collaboratively. I've also been very lucky in my career, with good advances and multibook deals. But there is some extent to which I worried that I was writing for the contract and not for the impulse of the thing itself.

Jim Crace

Work Good Job Writing Looking Lucky

I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.

Jeff Bridges

Busy Lazy Always Well

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

John Sununu

Business Music Revolution Internet

I really never saw an obstacle for me in taking leadership positions because, in a very ridiculous way, I thought, 'If Mary Robinson can do it then why can't I?'

Sinead Burke

Leadership Me Thought Why Way Never

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Time Myself I Am Me Doing More

It is not possible that it is God's will that women are making 77 cents on a dollar.

Tom Perez

Women God Will Possible Dollar

Measurement and categorization are, of course, fundamental to any scientific endeavor, but the implications of being able to identify psychopaths are as much practical as academic. To put it simply, if we can't spot them, we are doomed to be their victims, both as individuals and as a society.

Robert D. Hare

Society Endeavor Academic Measurement

Our show was - it remained - you know, kids could watch it and laugh at it. And they wouldn't know - they wouldn't get the jokes. But they would laugh at it. So they tell me now they have grown up and they're watching it. Now they get the jokes. But we didn't say anything blatant.

Rue McClanahan

Me Laugh You Know Now Say

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Joseph Brodsky

Life Time Language Boredom You Your

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

Jon Favreau

Freedom Courage Creative Fun People

You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.

Bob Uecker

Practice Team Warm You Whatever Up

I've never recorded anything I didn't like.

Aretha Franklin

Never Anything Like Recorded