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.
ADRIAN MATEJKAI wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
More Adrian Matejka Quotes
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They are 100% the product of the circumstances that led me home.
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I learned a new language for it all in the 90s. Which in some ways isn’t bad.
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I was a poor, geeky black kid in Indianapolis. There is nothing mythological about that.
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I wanted to be like Spock because he was unflappable.
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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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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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It made me want to change the kinds of poems I was writing, but I’m terrible at writing overtly political poems.
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By that I mean, honest and not trying to amplify some mythological version of myself.
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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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But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over the place, too. So it’s about perception and balance sometimes I think.
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I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for twenty years.
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The day after the president Trump election, I remember feeling like it was 1984 again.
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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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But it’s become very clear the past nine years that some Americans truly resent thinking before they speak.
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I wanted to be like Kirk because he had magnetism and the ladies loved him.
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