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The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.
Eileen Ford
Good
Me
People
Eye
Horrible
About
Like
Look
Very
Being
Even
Thing
Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us.
Eileen Myles
Love
Think
Later
Drawings
About
Songs
Like
Sounds
Cave
Stories
Literature
Us
A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us.
Eileen Myles
Business
Vote
Voting
Feels
Like
Most
Which
Us
Should
Usual
Having big audiences when you're on a book tour is like Valhalla if you're a person who used to sell Girl Scout cookies on the side. Because you want to give the reading that will sell the most books.
Eileen Myles
You
Book
Will
Girl
Big
Reading
Side
Book Tour
Books
Give
Having
Tour
Like
Most
Because
Audiences
Sell
Person
Scout
Want
Used
Cookies
Who
I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions.
Eileen Myles
Big
Sit
Own
Down
About
Onstage
Glass
Like
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Clinton
Campaign
Campaign Contributions
Contributions
Banks
Ask
Her
In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.
Eileen Myles
You
People
Thought
Drawings
Laugh
Would
Tried
Poetry
Like
Look
Were
Get
Listen
Your
Special
I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
Eileen Myles
Think
Waves
Way
Only
Scenes
Could
Write
Like
Know
Sort
How
Movie
Happen
Novel
In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids.
Eileen Myles
Family
Smart
Three
Group
Those
Kids
Bad
Able
Like
Liked
Lot
Middle
Being
Children
Groups
Included
Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.
Eileen Pollack
Political
Beneath
State
Bear
Polar
Feet
Like
Global
Global Warming
Around
Cube
Judging
Climate
Political Climate
Lefty
Walking
Ice
Ice Cube
Warming
Staring
Figuring out why people who choose not to do something don't in fact do it is like attempting to interview the elves who live inside your refrigerator but come out only when the light is off.
Eileen Pollack
People
Light
Live
Interview
Elves
Out
Inside
Something
Only
Fact
Attempting
Come
Like
Off
Refrigerator
In Fact
Your
Choose
Who
Figuring
Why
I like to tell little girls that not every day is going to be your best day and that you won't look pretty every day either and that that's OK. But it is important to take care of yourself.
Eiza Gonzalez
Best
Day
You
Yourself
Every Day
Care
Girl
Important
Every
OK
Tell
Pretty
Take
Take Care
Like
Look
Going
Either
Little
Little Girls
Your
I'm an actress that's game for anything. I would love to do a movie like 'Winter's Bone.'
Eiza Gonzalez
Love
Game
Winter
Bone
Would
Like
Movie
Anything
Actress
I like to cook good meals, especially when I have a lot of time.
Ekaterina Gordeeva
Time
Good
Like
Lot
Meals
Cook
If someone doesn't like something, it's their prerogative not to like it. It's not possible to please everyone. That doesn't mean that I'm going to change my mental make-up. I follow my instinct.
Ekta Kapoor
Change
Please Everyone
Everyone
Please
Possible
Follow
Someone
Mental
Something
Instinct
Like
Going
Mean
Prerogative
If I don't like a person, I always speak out.
Ekta Kapoor
Speak
Out
Like
Always
Person
When I made TV shows, people called them regressive. Clearly, everyone wants to generalize everything, but I like to choose a middle path.
Ekta Kapoor
People
Path
Made
Everyone
Everything
TV
TV Shows
Generalize
Clearly
Like
Middle
Wants
Them
Choose
Shows
I've always had this fear in me. What would life be like if I wasn't Number 1 on television? But I've learnt to overcome that fear.
Ekta Kapoor
Life
Me
Fear
Overcome
Television
Would
Had
Like
Always
Learnt
Number
I don't want to be sitting and pondering over how many stars my film will get. It's rubbish! I make films that I like - some get really appreciated, and some don't. Till now, luckily, they have done well, but I can't become a slave to that. And I won't - never!
Ekta Kapoor
Will
Become
Stars
Films
Rubbish
Some
Never
Over
Like
Well
Make
How
Till
Get
Sitting
Done
Want
Really
Many
Luckily
Film
Now
Slave
Appreciated
I like Das Racist, and so should you.
El-P
You
Like
Should
You don't know what it feels like to have someone go to bat for you until you really need it, and they do.
El-P
You
Bat
Someone
Feels
Like
Know
Until
Go
Really
Need
I really only put stuff out when I have something to say and I feel like I've got a direction and I've got an idea - and that can even take two, two-and-a-half years to flesh out.
El-P
Say
Out
Something
Direction
Only
Take
Put
Idea
Feel
Stuff
Like
Got
Years
Really
Flesh
Even
Two
I grew up on listening to, like, Mantronix and BDP and EPMD and Kool G Rap and Ultramag and Public Enemy and Fat Boys and Run DMC and a lot of those early records, those Rubin-era records. Those were always snare- and stab-heavy records.
El-P
Enemy
Listening
Those
Rap
Run
Records
Like
Boy
Kool
Always
Were
Lot
Snare
Up
Grew
Public
Early
Fat
I just like heavy music in general - from heavy rock and heavy metal and heavy rap and heavy everything. I've always been attracted to it.
El-P
Music
Heavy Metal
Everything
Rap
General
Like
Attracted
Metal
Rock
Always
Been
Just
Heavy
The people who talk the most about God are people who are the least like God.
El-P
God
People
About
Like
Most
Talk
Least
Who
Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.
El DeBarge
Music
Best
Me
Best Friend
Like
Friend
Really
Helps
I'm not like other writers. I'm not hung up on using my own songs. In fact, my sister Bunny always tells me I sing other people's songs better than my own. She says I loosen up and give the songs a different feel.
El DeBarge
Me
People
Better
Sister
Own
Other
Hung
Says
Tells
Give
My Own
Fact
Writers
Songs
Feel
Like
Sing
She
Loosen
Always
Up
Than
Bunny
Different
In Fact
Using
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