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James Arthur Inspirational Quotes (43)

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I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out loud, so that I can hear the poem's rhythm.
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If the woman in my life, the one that I felt I loved enough to want to marry, loved my children, I'd know then that her love for me was deeper than I could hope for.
James MacArthur
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My ideal reader is somebody who reads my poems out loud.
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The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.
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Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails.
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I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.
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I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to discover my poems' subject matter through the act of writing, instead of deciding ahead of time what my poems will be about.
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When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.
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I got into the acting business very young.
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Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.
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Years ago I used to set my alarm for 4 am, so that I could wake up in the middle of a dream and move directly into writing. I guess my favorite poems contain a mixture of intuitive and analytical thought.
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And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.
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In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of my poems on the page is secondary.
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In the case of Five-O, I believe it was a combination of many ingredients - timing, chemistry, Hawaii.
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My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.
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Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.
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I want to reiterate that my understanding of the poem is not the poem's core, true meaning. Once a poem goes out into the world, the poet is just one more reader.
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Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind.
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I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
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Poetry isn't an efficient tool for preserving experience, any more than it's an efficient mode of communication, but who says that it should be efficient?
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Some people say Hawaii is spoiled, but I don't think so. It's modern. It's a part of today's world.
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I give a percentage of the earnings to the Motion Picture Home.
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I do consider myself Canadian, but I feel American, too. I've spent more than fifteen years in each of the two countries, so really I just think of myself as a dual citizen, which is what I am. Thankfully, I've never been forced to choose!
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I'm a mix I'm sure some of my Canadian friends find me very American, both in person and on the page.
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