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Helen Vendler Quotes

There are not many poets whose fame rests on a single work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1933

Topics

Work Fame Single Whose Poets Many

Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.

Literature New Order English He

A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but to bring about change.

Change Support Aim Policy Bring

So many articles said, ''China Beach' is uncancellable,' but when they dragged it on, I started to have doubts.

Beach Said China Started Doubts

Every weekend from, like, 1974 to 1978, I'd trudge over to the Greenwich library, which gathered up almost every major newspaper in the country. I would sit there all day long and read and read and read the reviews. I remember being twelve or thirteen and writing to Judith Crist, Pauline Kael, and Roger Ebert.

Day Writing Library Weekend Remember

My rule of thumb is to always do what's on the page first. Then you can talk to your director about playing with it. Improv frees me up in a character, but I would be mortified if the writers who agonized over their words assumed I thought my improv was more valuable.

Michaela Watkins

Character Words Me Thought You Page

I was seventeen when I moved to New York. I was nineteen when I joined the main company. I was going through a lot. Just becoming an adult and just wanting to fit in, be accepted, and be in common with the other dancers.

New York New Company Dancers Going

I think my pocket presence and my ability to extend plays speak for themselves.

Speak Think Ability Presence I Think

My biggest hero was my mother. She told me every day that I could do or be anything. I knew it, I believed it, and I embraced it.

Mother Hero Day Me Every Day She

I believe in true love, and I believe in happy endings. And I believe.

Christie Brinkley

Love True Love Happy Believe True

If you watch a lot of television, the pacing, the quick cutting is so frenetic, but it doesn't always make it funnier. What I'm noticing is that when things are allowed to unspool more slowly, younger crowds really like it. They really appreciate it.

Appreciate You Television More Quick

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Freedom Pressure America Choose

I'm not affected by violence the way some people are. I don't know why, but I enjoy that intensity.

People Violence Enjoy Know Why Way

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