Eileen Myles Quotes

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

Eileen Myles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SchoolWritingYouBadGoFirst

Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

Meryl Streep

ChildrenChildMeRememberSituation

My parents were always Welsh-speaking and very proud of Wales.

John Rhys-Davies

ParentsProudAlwaysVeryWere

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Travis Bradberry

PeopleChaosNegativeImpactLogic

There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Tom Leykis

PlaceAnymoreComedianJohnnyReally

I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?

Tom Hanks

SonThinkYouBornKnowLucky

I have been on a diet since 1962.

Mary Quant

DietBeenSince

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

Martina Navratilova

SportsYouBodyI CanKnowTennis

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

BusinessWorldDirtyWhyOutside

If you choose a market that already exists, say, networking equipment, you have to compete with an established company like Cisco. Even if your product is marginally better, Cisco can fudge it and outsell you.

Douglas Leone

NetworkingBetterYouChooseSay

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Anne Rice

ImpossibleKnowSheEverythingAbout

When I was a teenager, in the '80s, it was 'Dynasty.' It was 'Beverly Hills, 90210.' And those were fantasies. Those weren't reflective of my experience. And I think we all want that; we all want to see ourselves, our story told, something to relate to, to help us and know that we're not freaks, that our experiences aren't odd.

Wilson Cruz

ExperienceStoryThinkHelpKnow

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

Peter Baynham

EndGoChristmasTryEdgySomething

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