Eileen Myles Quotes

In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Mel Brooks

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I want to be the Cecil B. DeMille of science fiction.

Steven Spielberg

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My children came along at a perfect time in my life. My career was soaring, and they didn't care who I thought I was. They just wanted to eat. It brought me down to earth.

Sissy Spacek

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I would like to work with Drake. It would be cool.

Smokepurpp

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There's a general understanding amongst, I think, most people in this country that whether or not you have a preexisting condition, it's not your fault, and you shouldn't be discriminated against in healthcare policy.

Steve Scalise

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If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would have made me actually look and feel ridiculous. It's quite obvious most of the people who turned up for this audition were hopeless.

Simon Cowell

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I played in 'From the Earth to the Moon,' working with Tom Hanks. He is a great guy, very smart.

Tom Verica

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What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

Rodney Dangerfield

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I'm just drawn to the odd guy, the man who is full of it, the guy who has limited talent but is pretending he's a genius.

Martin Short

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Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

Luke Hemsworth

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Philip's story is the most interesting in the royal family - his background is the opposite of what you'd think. Everyone has this idea that Philip is this bumbling, deliberately posh sort of man who says the wrong thing.

Claire Foy

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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.

Bob Wells

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