Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound
Recitation: by Male by Female
I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
Jo Brand
ChildrenParentsYouAnythingSit
Every day more Americans watch their jobs being shipped overseas.
Jerry Costello
DayEvery DayMoreWatchBeingJobs
No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say 'What a lazy baby!' We know sleeping is non-negotiable for a baby. But that notion is quickly abandoned.
Matthew Walker
BabyLookKnowLazySaySleeping
If people stop liking my clothes, I'll make a record.
Stella McCartney
PeopleClothesStopMakeLiking
I came out the womb dancing.
Michael K. Williams
DancingOutI CameWombCame
I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write about presidents and generals... I write about the man who was ranching, the man who was mining, the man who was opening up the country.
Louis L'Amour
HistoryManWritingYouCountryBig
I've stood up in front of America for 25 years, and I wish I could bring everybody into my home that I have touched in my career. That would be an amazing thing.
Joy Mangano
HomeAmazingAmericaWishCareerUp
I love standup, but not the grind of traveling and dealing with club owners.
Judy Gold
LoveGrindClubTravelingDealing
I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.
Jay Parini
GoodTimeEgyptPlacesOverMiddle
I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.
Jaron Lanier
TechnologyColdFeelDoneWay
Under Ronald Reagan in the United States and Margaret Thatcher in the U.K., there was a rewriting of the basic rules of capitalism. These two governments changed the rules governing labour bargaining, weakening trade unions, and they weakened anti-trust enforcement, allowing more monopolies to be created.
Joseph Stiglitz
CapitalismRulesUnionsMoreTwo
If making movies was easier, there'd be a lot more good movies. So you kind of learn that if it's just a good script, or if it's just a good producer, that's not always enough. You need an entire team of creative people coming together.
Chris Evans
GoodTogetherCreativePeopleTeam
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