David Antin Quotes

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1932

Topics

JazzEditingImprovisationJust

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

SolitudeSocietyInspiredOnly

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

John Lennon

ImportantNot InterestedBeingHip

There's the chaos surrounding the practical day-to-day - playdates, doctors' appointments, packing and unpacking, and organizing mealtimes.

Angelina Jolie

ChaosOrganizingPackingPractical

Many, including the Canadian and U.S. governments, try to provide family support while also maintaining a hard line about further fuelling terrorism and hostage-taking through ransom payments ... Still, try telling that to a mother, or a father, or a husband or wife caught in the powerless agony of standing by.

Amanda Lindhout

FamilyFatherMotherWifeSupport

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud.

Simon Armitage

HomeGratefulMeRoadProudLong

I still have a day job, so I don't think I'll be a full-time Shark, but if they ever invited me back, I'd be more than happy to do it.

Troy Carter

DayJobHappyMeThinkBack

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

Tom Jenkinson

PeopleMeNothingInterestedHow

I like geography. I like to know where places are.

Tom Felton

KnowGeographyPlacesWhereLike

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

Robbie Robertson

LifeGoodNeedTasteOurReally

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

Robert Benchley

WritingProfessionalChangingRibbon

Well, I think having your kids see you role model behavior of dignity when it's hard, when you're upset, when you want to confront somebody but you don't want to and you're nervous about it, when you are having moments where abuse of power is coming on to you. I think it's really important for kids to see how you handle that.

Rosalind Wiseman

PowerThinkBehaviorMomentsYou

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Ron Rash

LoveCharacterTimeVacationWriting

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