Thom Gunn Quotes

I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.

Thom Gunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004

Topics

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Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

John Ciardi

IntelligenceGeniusWillHappen

Every great movie is about the people, even if it's a great popular success like 'Gone With the Wind.' It's really not about the Civil War. It's about Scarlett and Rhett. That's who you go to see. You're not going to root for the North or pull for the South, or, you know, it's the people you remember.

Michael Cimino

SuccessGreatWarPeopleWindYou

I'd say that the director I had most involvement with was Alex Rockwell in 'In the Soup'. It was one of my earliest leading roles, and he gave me a lot of responsibility as an actor.

Steve Buscemi

ResponsibilityMeSoupSayActorHe

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.

Stephen Hunter

SkyPastStupidityStoryPerfect

When you're the artsy, weirdo, introverted outsider growing up, you don't fit into your community.

Stephen Karam

CommunityGrowing UpYouGrowingUp

Most development doesn't make it to series. So you want the writer and director to have a really good experience with development because, if it doesn't work out, you want to work with them again. You have to know their work really well, know the drafts really well, and when you give notes, you need to have really thought them through.

Sue Naegle

WorkGoodExperienceThoughtYou

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.

Robin Williams

PeopleReasonEatWhoNo Reason

It's not surprising to me that in a country born of racial genocide, the issue of race is still an open wound on the American soul. We haven't dealt with it.

Michael Moore

SoulMeAmericanBornCountryRace

The American people hit the streets and did something that the government wouldn't do: the Civil Rights Act. It didn't go down well with the corporate world.

Dick Van Dyke

ChildrenMeSmallGenerationYou

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.

Clyde Edgerton

ParentingChildPeopleBookPerson

Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

Brad Holland

TodayBluePeopleArtistSneakers

Your most dangerous competitors are those that are most like you.

Bruce Henderson

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