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"In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being."
"One should be able to teach adequately and feel good about it."
"I was not - even the notion of "could not" seems to suggest a moment of recognition, but it was such a repressed dimension - I was not able to NOT wear a shirt like my brothers could. My brothers would, in the heat, run around shirtless, and I wouldn't do that, obviously."
"When someone asks me now, "What do you do?" I will be able to say, "I am a writer.""
"No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write."
"I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food."
"Ten years from now, it'll all be the blues because that's the only speed I'll be able to play"
"We deserve each other, Luis … and I need you just as much as you need me. Hold me.” He steps closer, but hesitates. “If I do, mi chava, I can’t promise I’ll be able to let you go."
"Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself."
"When hope makes friends With patience, Hope will be able To live indefinitely."
"Everybody has God inside, but not everybody is able to see God within. One can see God only when one cries for Him. Those who cry for God and pray to God can realise God."
"Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion."
"I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball."
"There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be able to get out of."
"I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it."
"You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see."
"Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going."
"I wasn't able to make the full commitment until I met 'Celebrity Rehab's' Dr. Drew"
"It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare."
"Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty."
