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Eileen Myles Quotes

The thing about not being historically a mainstream writer is that everyone feels like you're theirs: you're their friend.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Friend You Everyone Being Like

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

Great Time Amazing Thinking You Say

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

Nature Great Man Law First Awe

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

Change Future People World Poverty

Disaster, to me, means in some big or small way, things going wrong. And that's obviously a matter of perception, right? Let's say your puppy chewed up all the shoes in your house. She probably had a fine time doing that. In her mind, a red letter day, the highlight of her puppy life.

Life Time Shoes Day Red Mind

I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error.

Stephen Hawking

Health Great Service Me Care Summer

It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

Change Truth Personality People You

A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.

Good Dress Looks Hourglass Figure

Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

Great Me You Acting Important Actor

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

Anthony Bourdain

Beautiful Light Day Me Dinner You

Saddam was a bastard, but he was our bastard.

I only entertain very close friends.

Pharrell Williams

Friends Close Friends Close Only

I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew.

Work Furniture Wood Make Like Apart

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