Franz Wright Quotes

When I'm in certain moods, a conversation will start up in my head, and suddenly I'll realize that the language has reached a very high and interesting level, and then lines and stanzas will just kind of appear, full-blown.

Franz Wright

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 18, 1953 - May 14, 2015

Topics

StartLanguageInterestingKindWill

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Jim Ryun

HabitMotivationYouStartedGoing

This is just another man, another fight, another payday.

Joe Frazier

ManFightJustAnother ManAnother

When you get the opportunity to work with somebody like Jude Law, there is a fear. They've got lots of stuff under their belt.

Jessie Buckley

WorkFearOpportunityLawYouGet

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.

Jo Bonner

WorldLondonWayMoreSeptember

And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit.

John Frankenheimer

GodThinkYouKnowHollywoodWrite

When people want to be associated with us, in the end, that's going to help us gain more fans.

Matthew Ramsey

PeopleEndHelpWantMoreFans

That's the best way to work on a project: talk to the director. In the end, it's the director's idea of how they perceive the movie and how they perceive the characters.

Stephanie Sigman

WorkBestEndWayTalkProject

I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.

Sienna Miller

PeoplePlaySometimesGetProtective

I've got about 27 gigs right now. I've got radio, I've got television, I've got The Washington Post.

Tony Kornheiser

TelevisionNowWashingtonRadioPost

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.

Tom Hardy

BeautifulPeopleEndLongYouLook

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

BattleReachNowWillPlacesGoing

Since the 1970s, I have asked students if they would first try to save their drowning dog or a drowning stranger. And for 40 years I have received the same results: One third vote for their dog, one third for the stranger, and one third don't know what they would do.

Dennis Prager

DogResultsKnowVoteTryFirst

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