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“I feel like you have to constantly keep proving yourself, and you have to constantly keep getting out there and showing them you're more than just that one song on the radio that's just playing. And that's what I had to do the first time around; I had to keep going out there and keep performing live.”
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“You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.”
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“E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The ***** frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.”
Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25
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“I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be.”
Source : "'National treasure' Andy Williams dies of bladder cancer at age 84", www.foxnews.com. September 26, 2012.
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“I put the most pressure on myself. I'm not normally content with what I do unless I win.”
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“The stones here speak to me, and I know their mute language. Also, they seem deeply to feel what I think. So a broken column of the old Roman times, an old tower of Lombardy, a weather- beaten Gothic piece of a pillar understands me well. But I am a ruin myself, wandering among ruins.”
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“Often I'm struck by something that I read; then I go and research it a little more, especially if I begin a poem, and I find out that I need to know more. Then I usually get intrigued and excited about whatever it is I'm writing about.”
Source : "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.
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“I've always been fond of the glam-rocker title.”