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Eileen Myles Quotes

Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Me Loved President Never Candidate

I love kids that come to shows, little kids coming up to you with braces; like, some kid came up to me in a parking lot outside a show in Santa Cruz - he was about 14 or 15 - and he said, 'Y'know, I love 'The Basketball Diaries,' but I hope your next book of poetry isn't gonna be as academic as 'Living at the Movies' was.'

Love Hope Poetry Me Basketball Book

What lists and awards don't measure - and I feel this strongly - is the lasting value of any work of art. They're a snapshot of a moment, and one should always consider their judgments in that context.

Work Art Moment Value Feel Measure

Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

Love Live First Audience First Love

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

Jean-Claude Juncker

God Financial More Write Who Than

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

Music Involved Awkward Heavy Lifting

On stage, it is a tremendous thing to be able to make people laugh. But one of the things that I have always loved is when I am in shows where you can turn the audience upside down and make them cry or move them. That is when things are the most rewarding.

I Am People Upside Down Loved Laugh

As a black man in America, I have lived the truth.

Truth Man Black America Lived

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

Life Good Imagination Lonely You

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

Love Never Paid Expected Complaints

I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.

Armistead Maupin

Truth You Said Never Write Always

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.

Children Parents Elders Signs Reveal

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill

Best I Am Satisfied Very Am Easily

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