Natasha Trethewey Quotes

I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.

Natasha Trethewey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

ExperiencePoetryMeSpeakThink

You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Joan Collins

Getting OlderYourselfMindHelpYou

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

Meghan McCain

ThinkPartyRepublicanBoxFitWho

Life is extremely complicated.

Robert Ludlum

LifeComplicatedExtremely

I mean, I think a healthy country is a country where people are healthy physically, and a smart country is a country where people are educated.

Anna Deavere Smith

SmartPeopleThinkCountryHealthy

Just as Bowie, Zeppelin, etc., became rock stars by remaking themselves in the image of the California girls, the Go-Gos became rock stars by pretending to be the Buzzcocks and the Sex Pistols. Jane Wiedlin always said her biggest influence was growing up in L.A. as a Bowie girl.

Rob Sheffield

StarsGirlGrowing UpInfluenceSex

Great players must always produce and at any time or in any game. Give them a ball and a pitch, and they will show what they've got. That relaxed, calm spirit you don't really have when you are young.

Robin Van Persie

GreatTimeCalmGameYouYoung

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.

Marvin Harris

LightPeopleProblemsFeelQuestions

I was as impatient about finding my dream man as I was about everything else I wanted.

Loretta Young

ManFindingDreamEverythingWanted

In every novel, I write about something - a place, an experience, an emotion - with which I'm intimately familiar, but it's also crucial to me that I take on challenges. If write only inside my comfort zone, I'll suffocate.

Julia Glass

ExperienceMeChallengesComfort Zone

Unlike the Contract with America, which was created by Washington pollsters and insiders, Families First was developed from the grassroots up. Congressional Democrats from across the country spent months meeting with people back home, asking them what issues were important to them, and what Congress could do to make their lives a little easier.

Dick Gephardt

HomePeopleAmericaBackMeeting

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

Dean Cain

ActionProudEndWantMoviesLiving

My dad read 'The Danish Girl' and fell in love with it. He told me, 'You need to do this film.'

Alicia Vikander

LoveGirlMeYouNeedFilm

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