Paul Muldoon Quotes

I spent about five years stuck in a room between the ages of 16 and 20 while I wrote the first book, which came out when I was 21. I should have been out playing tennis.

Paul Muldoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 20, 1951

Topics

BookTennisFirstYearsOutRoom

I'm Hispanic - don't mess around with my coffee. Leave my beans alone.

Liz Torres

AloneCoffeeHispanicMessLeave

The O.J. Simpson case, they had no understanding of that DNA evidence, and didn't want to.

Joseph Wambaugh

UnderstandingWantDNAEvidenceCase

Movies like 'Chef' are not really box-office monsters in the summertime and don't really fit into Hollywood's business model any longer. Even if 'Chef' is successful, it will be successful in the context of what it is. There's a limited upside to a film that's so small, but there's also limited exposure for the people who backed me.

Jon Favreau

BusinessPeopleMeChefSmallWill

On a personal note, reaching the World Cup would be something that no one could ever take away from me.

Diego Godin

MeWorldPersonalTakeSomething

I'm a smaller guy, so I train at a high pace.

Demetrious Johnson

TrainHighGuyPaceSmaller

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

Chris Kilham

WorthLandOilResourcesMining

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.

Antony Gormley

LearningExperienceIntelligenceYou

I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

LifeLoveMyselfDayStoryWeird

Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.

Sylvia Kristel

ConfidenceMeSelfFragile

Micro humor is a joke that's contained in the writing: it's a punch line, it's a turn of phrase, it's something that you can see on the page, and no matter who's saying it, it is, in and of itself, a funny line.

Susanna Fogel

FunnyHumorWritingSayingYouPage

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Ryan Gosling

PeopleThinkYouActingSayKind

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Konrad Lorenz

FaceEvolutionWillSameCultures

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