"I find it hard to write poems in reaction to world/national events unless there's a way in that's so evident to me that I can't deny the urge to write about such events. It takes me a while to gather the evidence, you know?"

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Allison Joseph

#Writing Quotes #World Quotes #Way Quotes

“I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.”
“Facing the kitsch aesthetic is the unfathomable world of myths.”
“A dream role is a role that you can't even picture for yourself. Everything I've ever played I never pictured I would get a chance to play. It [has] gone beyond my wildest dreams. One thing I would love to do in my lifetime is a movie musical. I've wanted to do that since I was a kid. That's what made me interested in acting in the first place. I would do any type of musical, but I love the Harlem Renaissance era. I think a dream role in something that I probably can't see and I don't know when it's going to come.”

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“Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.”
“Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.”
“I'm optimistic, though. Now, with the Arab Spring, I think that people in the region are beginning to overturn some of these clichÃ©s, and Western editors are starting to catch up. We're seeing some exceptions to the stereotypes, like Elizabeth Rubin's great piecein Newsweek, "The Feminists in the Middle of Tahrir Square." But an article like that shouldn't be the exception. It should be the rule.”

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“Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.”
“I avoid talking about the way I work. But in avoiding it I seem only to have encouraged people to focus their fantasies about me in an ever more fantastical way.”

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