Harry MathewsPoetry Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest. – Harry Mathews Dislocation Quotes Distance Quotes Poems Quotes Poetry Quotes Well, I had this little notion – I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence. There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers’ wives.
Abraham Flexner Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education… no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both. – Abraham Flexner
Olivier Theyskens Art is the way people see things, and I think it’s great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic. – Olivier Theyskens
Leah Remini I always was trying to make people laugh as a kid. I was a big fan of Carol Burnett and Gilda Radner. I watched them and I remember feeling as a child, when I heard the laughter they got, a little jealous that they made someone laugh like that. – Leah Remini
Rainn Wilson Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of ‘Glee’. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are. – Rainn Wilson
Sebastian Junger Well, you got to remember, bin Laden killed 3,000 Americans and, in some ways, he and his ideology killed tens of thousands of his fellow Muslims, including Pakistanis. I understand that that was provocative and complicated for Pakistan, but only if you accept the idea that he was an acceptable member of Pakistani society. – Sebastian Junger
Jonathan Demme I love doing fiction. I love doing performance films and I love doing documentaries that don’t have music. I love to shoot and I love to shoot things I’m enthusiastic about. – Jonathan Demme
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