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Quote by Karrine Steffans

“People who know me, recognize a definite difference in my poise and in my personality, because I've grown.”

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Karrine Steffans is an American author, born on August 24, 1978. She is known for her memoirs, particularly her account of her relationship with the popular music producer R. Kelly. more

“When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.”

Writing Kind Different Obsession Different Kinds Hostage

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“When I'm in an interview with someone who is not intelligent, but flat-out ignorant, idiotic and stupid, or just an ass, it really gives me a headache.”

Giving Stupid Intelligent Ignorant Ass Headache Idiotic

Author:Karrine Steffans

“Every cliche is true, right? That's why they're cliches.”

Cliche

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“I've spent most of my life in cities, and so I've always lived with the curiosity about what makes for city cultures and how peoples live in cities, how peoples anywhere manage to co-exist, the public life and the private life.”

Culture Curiosity Manage

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“Some days, who can stare at swathes of sky, leafage and bad-complected whale-gray streets, tailpipes and smokestacks orating sepia exhaust, or the smaller enthusiasms of pistil and mailbox key, and not weep for the world's darks on lights, lights on darks, how its half-tones stay unchanged in their changings, or how turning wheels and wind-trash and revolving doors weave us into wakefulness or dump us into distraction?”

Enthusiasm Staring Distraction

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“This constant stream of qualia we feel in our stomachs. The big-leafed plant lifts its wings to greet the planet's chemistry, the sun arrives on rooftops like a gentle stranger, rain rushes us love to love, stop to stop, these veins of leaf, hand, storm and stream, as if in pursuit of us and what we are becoming.”

Rain Plant Stranger Storm Gentle Chemistry

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.”

Animal Brain Poet Comment

Author:W. S. Di Piero

“One of the appeals of William Carlos Williams to me is that he was many different kinds of poet. He tried out many different forms in his own way of, more or less, formlessness. He was also a poet who could be - he was a love poet, he was a poet of the natural order and he was also a political poet.”

Kind Different Political Natural Poet Different Kinds

Author:W. S. Di Piero

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