#ten

Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#books #conversation #good #good book #listens

Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it. ↗

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

#actress #ago #conversation #cool #difficult

A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#cell #energy #functions #living #maintenance

I've had offers to sign a record deal, but the people I've talked to have wanted to package me and have me meet with songwriters who've written stuff for Whitney Houston, that sort of thing. That's not at all my style. ↗

— Lukas Haas

#had #houston #i #me #meet

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match. ↗

— Greg Garber

#life #sports #tennis #death

In the U.S.A. or Europe there is no realistic way to estimate the type, magnitude, or probability of the risk, nor any way to narrow down the potentially affected regions. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#any #down #estimate #europe #magnitude

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#descriptive #each #fixed #individual #lyric

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#anybody #between #doing #else #exterior

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#creates #interests #kind #language #me

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#how #line #look #obliged #particular