Helen Vendler Quotes

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Helen Vendler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.

Joe Morton

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The true identity theft is not financial. It's not in cyberspace. It's spiritual. It's been taken.

Stephen Covey

SpiritualIdentityFinancialTrue

I didn't have the base I needed to win the election.

Rodney Alexander

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I wear sunglasses almost all the time outside - not because I think I'm really, really cool, but because of the rays.

Ronda Rousey

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I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

Lou Holtz

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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

Jason Giambi

FailureFearYouPlayKindAlways

I have a hard time being career-minded, but I want to be able to survive as an actor and do work that I think is important and that says something.

Jason Ralph

WorkTimeSurviveThinkImportant

Writing is like any other sort of sport. In order for you to get better at it, you have to exercise the muscle.

Jason Reynolds

WritingBetterExerciseYouMuscle

Literature invents its own rules.

Joseph Brodsky

LiteratureRulesOwn

With 'Idol' it's kind of just like 'OK, here's this competition - I need to do better than somebody else.'

Jordin Sparks

CompetitionBetterKindNeedHere

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Desmond Tutu

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I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Conrad Hall

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