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Philip Levine Quotes

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Philip Levine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1928 - February 14, 2015

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Yourself You Why Where Sense Get

I think it's appropriate in America for anyone to speak out and say what their reaction is to the president's State of the Union speech.

Jim Jordan

Speak Think America Speech Say Out

It's strange how extras have become such a big part of the business. I don't know what I think of it. I mean, some of them are great, most of them are filler.

John Landis

Business Great Think Know Become

You don't get to choose where you were born; you only get to choose where you live.

Matt Rosendale

Live You Choose Born Where Get

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Steven Lopez

Moment Me Winning Kind Become Away

Black men with criminal records are the most severely disadvantaged group in the labor market.

Michelle Alexander

Men Black Labor Group Market Most

Christianity was literally born in the Middle East, and we must not forget our Middle Eastern brothers and sisters in Christ.

Prince Charles

Born Forget Must Christianity Middle

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit there for a few hours.

Pauline Gedge

Love Brain Television Say Ashamed

I've trained primarily in Meisner Technique, and I've done a little bit of Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade just to get my feet wet in the improv world because I think that's really important. But most of the teachers I've worked with, I've gotten, like, references through agents or managers, and they're sort of independent.

Scottie Thompson

World Feet Think Done Important Wet

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Tina Weymouth

Escape Trapped Hard Image Beatles

I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.

Nina Garcia

Walk Ride New York City New Subway

As we look ahead, we see increasing opportunities for Duke in natural gas - not just for producing electricity, but in providing gas for our customers. We have been investing in renewables as well throughout the U.S.

Lynn Good

Opportunities Electricity Look Ahead

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the '60s generation.

Janet McTeer

Mother Growing Up Generation Values