#telling

People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable. ↗

— Rita Dove

#country #even #found #i #immensely

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#know #me #should #sitting #soapbox

My acting coach I've got here, Richard Lawson, he's been doing good, just telling me to calm down sometimes and just be me. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#been #calm #calm down #coach #doing

I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while. ↗

— Vida Blue

#be nice #cocky #get #give #i

Einstein, stop telling God what to do! ↗

— Niels Bohr

#god #stop #telling

I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty. ↗

— Susan Estrich

#always #beautiful #beautiful women #beauty #i

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for. ↗

— Russell Banks

#ancient #been #community #embrace #enough

I got along better with the guys than with the girls. Only two girls came up to talk to me. Later I found out they were telling their boyfriends, 'If you talk to her, I'll kill you.' It's always rough with that high school thing. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#always #better #came #found #got

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly. ↗

— Sergio Aragones

#back #bad #bad guy #based #bed