Eileen Myles Quotes

Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 9, 1949

Topics

GirlBookReadingYouScoutPerson

In my teens, I was never part of the cool crowd.

Jennifer Garner

CoolNeverCrowdPartTeens

Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.

John Darnielle

PoetryResearchSeeingDigitalOpera

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

Robert Indiana

LoveLove IsDangerousPerilFraught

I had been a foreign correspondent in Japan for the 'Wall Street Journal' when my editor there became Washington bureau chief - this was 2007 - and he said, 'How would you like to go to Iowa and cover Hillary Clinton?' I was 28. I went to Iowa.

Amy Chozick

YouWallGoSaidWashingtonStreet

People want smart energy policy.

Steve Scalise

SmartPeopleEnergyWantPolicy

If I don't get paid I'm going to take a whole lot of Marshall amps home with me on the plane.

Tommy Chong

HomeMeTakeGoingPaidGet

Debt ceiling is something that, you know, any time the president asks for the authority to increase the debt ceiling, the debt burden on our children and grandchildren, I think that requires a pretty serious discussion, robust debate.

Ron Johnson

ChildrenTimeThinkYouDebateKnow

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Mason Cooley

AdvertisingKindExpensiveBuyUs

I began taking liberties a long time ago; now it is standard practice for most directors to ignore the rules.

Michelangelo Antonioni

TimePracticeIgnoreLongRulesNow

I'm really happy to be a mom, and I'm proud of the phase I'm in.

Liz Phair

HappyMomProudPhaseReally

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups.

Jayne Mansfield

DoingStill

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

LifeAdversityMeFeelYouWonder

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