"Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own."

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Source : Ruth Whitman (1990). “Laughing Gas: Poems, New and Selected, 1963-1990”, p.66, Wayne State University Press

Ruth Whitman

#Faces Quotes #Apologizing Quotes #Worn Quotes

“It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.”
“Sexual healing is good for me.”
“When you spend your life in a creative mode all the time mindless leaf blowing can be a welcome break.”
“It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.”

Source : James Wolcott (2013). “Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”, p.390, Anchor
“I just want different parts; I wanna be that guy who people mention and they don't know who you're talking about until you say a few movies they've been in and then people are amazed that it's the same person.”
“Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.”

Source : Alice Childress, Kathy A. Perkins (2011). “Selected Plays”, p.125, Northwestern University Press
“In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.”
“All my fans, especially my Latino fans and Nicaraguan fans, I promise you I will become world champion. After I become world champion Piccirillo can go back to Italy and make pizza or pasta or whatever it is he does over there.”

Source : Source: www.boxnews.com.ua

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