J. N. Morgan Quotes

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

The fact that something is in a rhymed form or in blank verse will not make it good poetry.

Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.

Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it.

Women are a colonized people.

I believe it doesn't really matter where you work as long as you work. Keep sharpening your teeth.

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

If it is in the highest good for all life everywhere.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

When you have an idea for a story, you want those characters to reach as many people as you can. I think you normally think of prose as a way of doing that. It fits our time, the culture.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

Science casts a long black shadow back over who we think we are, and where it falls the temperature falls with it. Its touch is chilly and unforgiving.

In the future, maybe quantum mechanics will teach us something equally chilling about exactly how we exist from moment to moment of what we like to think of as time.

Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

I learned I could live more than one life in a lifetime.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Dreams can be relentless tyrants.

You have no enemy until you make one.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

There is no disgrace in peace. There can never be dishonor in peace.

That was the thing about secrets-you had to carry them with you forever, no matter what the cost.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits

Being embarrassed means that you're human, and we like you better for it

To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god.

I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy.

I've always been really hot on westerns. All my life growing up, cowboy, cowboy, cowboy.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

I think it's awesome. I miss it so much. That ocean has something on me.

Christianity is different from all other religions? They deal with the story of man's search for God. The Gospels deals with the story of God's search for man.

Growth isn't free it always has a cost.

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in.

ObamaCare will ultimately destroy valuable jobs.

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

May the dreams of your previous be the reality of your potential.

You will be surprised but I do a lot of studying and I watch National Geographic.

Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Gold is money and nothing else.

I think, as Ive gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.

Part of what we love about poetry is the fact that it seems ancient, that it has an authority of ancient language and ancient form, and that it's timeless, that it reaches back.

You cannot believe everything you hear

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.