Quote by John Cusack
Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, tryin

Its something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone elses poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because youre too awkward to do it. – John Cusack

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The movies have got more corporate, theyre making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. – John Cusack

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Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. Theyre the best girls in the world – theyre loyal and fun, but when they get mad, theyll try to kill you. – John Cusack

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Death is a billion-dollar business. They cant even pass a law where it takes seven days to get a gun. Why dont you have to go through the same kind of screening you do to get a drivers license? Its totally insane. – John Cusack

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Ive written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasnt until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song. – Jordin Sparks

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But I dont think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. – Diane Wakoski

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

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Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. – Mark Strand

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Give to everyone who begs from you and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. – Jesus Christ

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I love painting and music, of course. I dont know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. Ive certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didnt read it until I was in my late 20s. – Kenneth Koch

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