#means

I wonder what it means about American literary culture and its transmission when I consider the number of American poets who earn their living teaching creative writing in universities. I've ended up doing that myself. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#american #consider #creative #creative writing #culture

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#clever #funny #i #i think #just

It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost. ↗

— Sela Ward

#back #broad #community #did #explore

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. ↗

— Chris Ware

#also #during #earlier #false #found

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

#being #big #children #curve #grownup

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it. ↗

— Bubba Watson

#everybody #homegrown #means #see #swing

Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress. ↗

— Emma Watson

#am #close #had #hermione #i

I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else. ↗

— Emma Watson

#date #else #everyone #i #industry

Confidence in golf means being able to concentrate on the problem at hand with no outside interference. ↗

— Tom Watson

#being #concentrate #confidence #golf #hand