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Alden Nowlan Quotes

Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.

Alden Nowlan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian
Birth: January 25, 1933 - June 27, 1983

Topics

Think American Poverty I Can Write

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

Jefferson Mays

Journey Time Space Control Night Go

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Sophie B. Hawkins

People Depend Most Other Lot

I had a big Akita, Yoshi, who was fabulous. I loved him. We lost him when he was 12, and I've never been able to replace him. Normally, most people lose a pet and get another and keep going on. But it just felt wrong to me; it felt disloyal.

Robert Crais

Keep Going Pet People Me Loved Lose

I love berries, greens, and salmon.

Mary Helen Bowers

Love Salmon Berries Greens I Love

I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are.

Martin Sheen

Live Myself You Know Way Explain

When it comes to exercise, everybody has to find what works for them. I watch my body. I look at myself in the mirror once a week - not because I'm vain, but I'm looking for moles and changes in my body.

Montel Williams

Mirror Myself Looking Body Look

I think Georges St-Pierre is a joke.

Luke Rockhold

Think Joke I Think

If you want to perform at your ultimate best, if you want to be the best you can be in sports and in school, mentally, physically - chiropractic is the way, because everything has to do with your nervous system.

Jonathan Lipnicki

Sports Best School You Want Nervous

Paying attention and awareness are universal capacities of human beings.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Attention Human Awareness Universal

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

Spiritual Painting Think Values

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

Alia Shawkat

School New York New Right Out Lived

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Alfred North Whitehead

Art Self Secret Us Only Most