Eileen Myles Quotes

Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

Jeremy Lin

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For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

John F. Kennedy

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My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

Melissa McCarthy

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It's nauseating for me when I feel like I'm not growing or challenging myself.

Lucas Hedges

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'The Vampire Diaries' is a great show, but it's on the verge of being overcrowded. The amount of characters, a lot of them don't get screen time because there's so much to put in, and it has to center around the love triangle.

Joseph Morgan

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One of the first members of Congress I met when I was first elected in 2008 was Barney Frank.

Chellie Pingree

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I'm usually too shy to write on planes because I assume that everyone on board is as nosy as I am and will look over my shoulder and read what I'm writing.

Chelsea Cain

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In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Boris Pasternak

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If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist.

ASAP Ferg

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Nepal is a magical country and one of the only places in the world where they are winning the fight against illegal poaching.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

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People want to see themselves in the industry that, for so long, has ostracized girls of my size.

Ashley Graham

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Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

William Jennings Bryan

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