- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal Quotes
On personal feeling, motive, and the line between private and public.
One quote here describes a creative project as a direct combination of personal feeling and commercial reality, a tension a lot of artists recognize. See also Life quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Doctors
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- Nov 07, 2020
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
- Independent
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.
- Hatred
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- Nov 07, 2020
I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in June through August of '73 which embargoed any further U.S. help to South Vietnam.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have personal problems like other people have termites.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
- Big Event
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a big event in my personal life. Then I reevaluated and started going to theology class, and then I found my husband.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When healthcare is at its best, hospitals are four-star hotels, and nurses, personal butlers at the ready - at least, that's how many hospitals seem to interpret a government mandate.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that.
- Nov 07, 2020
The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.
- Pickles
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- Nov 07, 2020