C. K. Williams Quotes
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.
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That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
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Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.