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"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"I always want to rock."
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"We want to win. We want to win big. We want to win the whole thing."
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"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
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"I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do that best, for me."
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"I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me."
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"What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"You can tell by looking at me that I've got more miles behind me than I've got in front of me. When you reach that point, if you've got some good years left, you want to make sure that you use them wisely."
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"I didn't want to do just another set of recipes. I think that's useless."
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"One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way."
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"For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry."
Reading

"Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect."
Want

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time

"I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too."
Living

"I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987."
Life

"The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives."
Poetry

"What I try to do is to go into a poem - and one writes them, of course, poem by poem - to go into each poem, first of all without having any sense whatsoever of where it's going to end up."
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"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level."
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"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
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