"I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

Robert Hass

#Jobs Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Don't ever follow me, because I am difficult.”
“What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?”
“The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.”
“Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.”
“If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I am. This is what I love. This is what I believe--who would you want hearing your whispers? Or perhaps better: Who do you trust to hear your whispers? Whose breath do you want mingled with your own? Whose flesh still warm beside you?”
“Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength”

Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
“I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.”

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