I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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Echo of a Scream (1937).’ I got spun out by the way he creates tension and movement through the interlocking details in the painting.
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That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems.
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You should check out William Shatner’s album The Transformed Man.
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It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in a good way.
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One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility.
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I mean getting people to think about what language actually means before they use it is a good thing.
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There is no way I would have written these poems had I not come back.
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This poem began as an emulation of Siqueiros’s compositional style and, in the process, became an ekphrastic aubade about my old neighborhood.
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I had to find a way to be more honest about what happened. And it wasn’t fun to write, even though the poems aren’t 100% autobiographical.
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It was in the air somehow. That ownership of bigotry. I hadn’t seen it since I was a kid.
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Because before that I wasn’t thinking about systems or food insecurity or whatever.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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It’s financial of course, but it’s also the lifestyle choices. The more money people have the further away from each other they often want to be.
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