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Billy Collins Quotes

If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: March 22, 1941

Topics

Walk People Thought You Pen Write

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

Work Hard Work Success Eyes Step

Films don't hold the answers I'm looking for... Would you not be so much more interested in finding out that Bigfoot existed than in watching a really good movie?

Good Looking Finding You Watching

I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

Angry Memory People Blur You Kind

I am a mother, so I'm used to balancing things.

Mother I Am Things Used Balancing

When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.

Travis Kalanick

Time Talking You Lose Move On Will

I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.

Guitar Touch Until

I think a family is the best way to open up the appeal of a show because everyone has a mother. Everyone has a father. Everyone has cousins or siblings. Everyone's trying to pursue their romantic ideals and their relationship ideals.

Family Father Mother Relationship

My father fought for me to play football. He never had to make me shinpads, but it was a lot of money to send to me to a soccer school. And to provide boots and things.

Father Money Football School Me

Corsetry is a body modification.

Body Modification

I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

Go Said Want Tell Involved Muscles

America is a country formed by diverse communities from different countries. Overall, the country is very hospitable and gives opportunities to grow. Saying that, I'd also say I'm not a 'white' immigrant; a South Asian's experience is different than, say, a European immigrant's.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Experience Saying Opportunities Grow

I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.

Christopher Meloni

Find Never Sincerity Offensive

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