"No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book."

-- Muriel Rukeyser

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“If a figure doesn't look back at you, you forget it.”

Source : Nathan Oliveira, Eugenia Parry, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries (1991). “Nathan Oliveira: paintings and works on paper, 1959-1991”
“Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.”
“The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.”
“Power is always right, weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.”
“You celebrate a person's life by living your life fully.”
“If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.”
“If a person is dying of cancer, you do not say, 'You can't turn back the clock.' You try to heal the person, no matter how painful the process.”
“There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.”

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