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I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#ask #criteria #critical #everybody #good

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#buy #drink #hard #humanity #i

I've been going through photos of my mother, looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#aging #back #been #context #enough

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well. ↗

— Vladimir Kramnik

#differently #playing #plays #very #way

If you're keeping yourself in the bubble and only looking at your own data or only watching the TV that fits your agenda then it gets boring. ↗

— Nate Silver

#boring #bubble #data #fits #gets

My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. ↗

— Tony Curtis

#bronx #i #joined #navy #neighborhood

The parameters are such that I don't get offered a lot of work. I'm sure most directors hear my list of don'ts and say forget it. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#forget #get #hear #i #list

I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#frank #frank sinatra #i #joined #new

In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast. ↗

— Ken Curtis

#break #business #cast #could #down

It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan. ↗

— Richard Curtis

#always #because #case #certainly #events