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Edward Hirsch Quotes

I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: January 20, 1950

Topics

Human Warmth Like Poems Machinery

The way that I work as an actress, I always prefer to read the whole story and tell the whole story and feel what the whole story's going to be, the journey for the audience and how it ebbs and flows, the highs and the lows.

Work Journey Story Feel Way Tell

Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.

Friend Character People Book Say

Home is the wellspring of personhood, where our identity takes root; where civic life begins. America is supposed to be a place where you can better yourself, your family, and your community.

Matthew Desmond

Life Family Home Community Yourself

Your face makes my soul want to eat chocolate pudding!

Soul Face Chocolate My Soul Want

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

Children Optimism Doing You Give

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.

Women Music Space Thought Tradition

If I could only have cash, I know that I would spend very little.

Know Little Cash If I Could Would

As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Beginning People Reading Better New

I believe that the family unit has fundamentally been the most positive thing for society, and I don't believe that any minority has the right to create changes that impact on the majority.

Stephen Baldwin

Positive Family Society Believe

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can't say himself.

Said Say President Need Things Most

I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

Mary Pope Osborne

Imagination Ideas Research Personal

I usually don't write songs by people calling me and saying, 'Write a song about this.' Usually I'm just going with what I want to write, so you never know.

People Me Song Saying You Know

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