WN Stanley Quotes

The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

An old poet ought never to be caught with his technique showing.

My mother never forgave my father

I want to be able to tell black people something they don't know, something about our own lives.

Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'

When black men started bearing arms, these people who we think of as being pro-gun are saying, 'We ought to change this law.

Race is always tossed into the mix. The unspoken idea is always that white people have a right to carry guns and bear arms.

Once your leaders get corrupted one way or another, it's hard to stop the organization from being corrupted.

Canadians shouldn't come down to Southern California and take jobs away from Mexicans.

If it weren't for the Japanese and the Germans, we wouldn't have any good war movies.

The process of living is the process of reacting to stress.

Through our entire history we have become accustomed to pushing [animals] around in ways dictated by our own wants and needs without much regard for theirs.

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

When something hasn't been around much for a while, and one example of it turns up and catches people's eyes, they go looking for more like it - until they get tired of it again.

Its limitations are those of the physical universe: it won't let you play with some really wild ideas that aren't possible, but are fun to speculate about.

intricately and intriguingly woven, lots of fun, and extremely thought provoking.

Painting is saying "Ta" to God.

You have to be serious about what you do but you mustn't take yourself seriously. That way you'll be happier and ultimately you'll be more successful. You'll be better at what you do.

Every character, no matter who you play, at times is pretending to be somebody else. People have a public face and a private face.

I was always attracted to the past as a kid.

I think it's important to have a good sense of humor and joke around with your kids. That's what I do a lot.

If you feel safe then you can go wherever you want to go as an actor.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

I've been playing the father of teenagers for years. People always thought that I was 40 when I was 26. Once you lose your hair, they're like "Oh! He's really old now."

I like to use all of myself, and acting wasn't doing that.

I wanted to be an actor when I was a kid.

I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging.

Every role is approached in exactly the same way, you have to make it believable and that's all. Acting is really serious, like, pretending really hard.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

I'm interested in how people shoot because I have a very specific way of shooting and I'm fascinated by the way other people shoot films, particularly if they're smart and talented.

Sometimes you can't even find the director on a movie set. Sometimes you don't want to find the director on a movie set.

I hate movies that take a long time to shoot or directors that labor over every shot or do excessive amounts of coverage and excessive takes and don't keep things moving or constantly cutting.

The smaller films just take a longer period of time to build their fan base because people don't see them as soon as they come out in the theater. They see them, after a period of years.

This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

I never go overbudget on my movies.

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.

I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote.

I'm not saying they won't be bigger projects someday.

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

Capital simply allows us to expend labour in advance.

Property is only another name for monopoly.

Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.