Eileen Myles Quotes

Weirdly, the past starts to be about something else. It becomes about style in a way that it wasn't about, and I don't mean writing style, but cultural style.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StylePastWritingWayMeanStarts

Monogamy is a tricky thing. I don't think it's for everyone, but I've chosen that life, and there's no question in my relationship.

Joanna Garcia

LifeRelationshipThinkQuestion

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

Jenna Fischer

GreatPersonExampleRoleWho

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Melanie Lynskey

WeirdFeelPerfectGoMoviesFaces

The president has largely taken a hands-off approach in Syria and granted it as a legitimate sphere of interest to countries like Iran and like Russia. This is very bad policy, and it's going to lead to very dangerous consequences for our partners in the region, which is why so many of them are so opposed to U.S. policies.

Tom Cotton

ConsequencesBadDangerousWhyLead

Once I've discovered the story, I might restructure it, maybe move things around, set up a clue that something is going to happen later, but that happens much later in an editorial capacity.

Michael Ondaatje

StoryHappenUpSomethingGoingSet

I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.

Jay Parini

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Paperwork will ruin any military force.

Chesty Puller

WillMilitaryForceRuinPaperwork

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

Clairo

PeopleWritingPlacePersonalFirst

Love between two adults is always conditional. You can fall out of love because you are able to fall in love.

Bryan Cranston

LoveYouFallTwoAlwaysOut

My teacher at RADA said I was going to have trouble when I left because I wasn't an obvious juvenile lead, although I could do both comedy and drama. But I understood enough to know that my career was going to be a marathon, not a sprint.

Anne Reid

TeacherComedyEnoughCareerDrama

Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.

Arthur Slade

MeBelieveYouPowerfulWantMore

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Willie Nelson

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