Trethewey House Quotes & Sayings

My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me, if I got bored in the car, to write a poem about it. And I did find that poetry was a way for me, I think as it for a lot of people, to articulate those things that seem hardest to say. — Natasha Trethewey

Part of being an actor is letting things come about organically as opposed to forcing them. — David Duchovny

Her father was her door to the world; he was the singular opening through which she saw, heard, and felt. Without him she didn't know what she saw, or what she heard, and what she felt; all she felt, was him gone. — Anthony Marra

I sometimes wish for the old days when audiences used to be ignorant of world cinema and our inspired works were seen as originals. — Yashvir Dalaya

The art of government is not to let me grow stale. — Napoleon Bonaparte

But old habits die slow deaths. — Patrick Rothfuss

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved.
[Lat., Dociles imitandis
Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.] — Juvenal