"In the West, you take people at their word."

-- Ken Salazar

#People Quotes #West Quotes

“You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.”
“Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.”
“It wasn't Luther or Calvin that reformed the church. It was the Word of God that reformed the church.”
“The war on poverty programs help address the pain of poverty.”
“Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.”
“The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.”
“Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.”

Source : "Cheap Trick". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. March 12, 1997.

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