Eileen Myles Quotes

When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

EyesWritingFeelYouKindMean

I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.

Joan Didion

GoodParentsPeopleThinkParent

I almost turned down '8 Mile.' I was due to start 'ER,' and I learned they really wanted me to be in '8 Mile.' I didn't know Eminem; I just knew he was a rapper and saw what everyone else saw in the media. I thought they were just trying to capitalize on his popularity.

Mekhi Phifer

MeStartThoughtMediaTryingDown

I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

LifeMy LifeOldYearsBangkok

If you are recording, you are recording. I don't believe there is such a thing as a demo or a temporary vocal.

Tom Waits

BelieveYouTemporaryRecordingDemo

Besieged by lawsuits that threatened to engulf almost everyone at the White House, Clinton assistants shunned paper or e-mail records of their daily deliberations. One told me that he would go down the hall to confer with his division chief face to face rather than discuss an issue on the telephone.

Robert Dallek

DailyMeFaceHouseWhiteDown

But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.

Robert Foster Bennett

GoodFatherExperiencePoliticsMe

I am all for trying out various kinds of hair styles. I have even worn a wig earlier in a film where I essayed the part of a woman.

Riteish Deshmukh

WomanI AmHairTryingWigOut

Our fifty principal cities contain 39.3 per cent of our entire German population, and 45.8 per cent of the Irish. Our ten larger cities only nine per cent of the entire population, but 23 per cent of the foreign.

Josiah Strong

PrincipalIrishFiftyPopulationTen

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.

Denis Johnson

LonelinessYourselfLonelyYouWrite

Bob Taylor and I playing brothers. And I was a Mexican bandit. And he was the sheriff of the town. And we loved each other. We loved each other very much.

Anthony Quinn

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I can't really work on more than one thing at a time.

Alice Hoffman

WorkTimeMoreOne ThingThanThing

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Pearl S. Buck

WorkExcellenceJoyEnjoyKnowWell

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