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# Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell (9 February 1874 – 5 May 1925) was an American poet of the Imagist school who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.

## Quotes

* To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.
** Dial (January 1917).
* Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration, assonance.
** Can Grande's Castle (1921), preface.
* Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.
** "Petals," from Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912).
* Mr. Sandburg possesses a powerful imagination, which plays over and about his realistic themes and constantly ennobles them. ...strikes, and factories, and slaughter-houses, and railroad trains, all take on a lyric quality under his touch. ...When Carl Sandburg left college, he was no longer an unskilled labourer, working with his hands. He was a thinking man, with a brain charged with ideas and emotions, determined to do his part in bringing about the millennium. For Carl Sandburg... is a revolutionary; he must push the world to where he is convinced it ought to be. ...again and again, he deserts the seer's mountain peak for the demagogue's soap-box. ...Mr. Sandburg is like a man striving to batter down a jail with balls of brightly coloured glass. ...Whether constant preoccupation with disease is a healthy form of literature, whether it acts as a curative, is open to question. But we can surely say that to be curative the disease must be treated unsentimentally and truly. Mr. Sandburg has aimed at doing this, has striven hard to do it. For this, one honours him above his fellows. For this, and the spirit of beauty which pervades his work.
** "Edgar Lee Masters and Carl Sandburg," Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917).

## External links

* Amy Lowell at Project Gutenberg
# Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Amy Krouse Rosenthal (April 29, 1965 – March 13, 2017) was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books, and the film project The Beckoning of Lovely.

## Quotes

* For anyone trying to discern what to do with their life: pay attention to what you pay attention to. That's pretty much all the info you need.
** As quoted in Kleon, Austin (2 April 2019). Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad. Workman Publishing Company. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-5235-0664-4.
* I want more time with Jason. I want more time with my children. I want more time sipping martinis at the Green Mill Jazz Club on Thursday nights. But that is not going to happen. I probably have only a few days left being a person on this planet.
** From her essay Amy Krouse Rosenthal (March 3, 2017). "You May Want to Marry My Husband". The New York Times. Retrieved on 22 November 2019. , published 10 days before her death, as quoted in Stevens, Heidi. "Chicago author Amy Krouse Rosenthal's 'You May Want to Marry My Husband' essay went viral. Now her husband is honoring her life with a giant yellow umbrella in Lincoln Park.". The Chicago Times. Retrieved on 22 November 2019.
* I tend to believe whatever you decide to look for you will find, whatever you beckon will eventually beckon you.
** As quoted in Roberts, Sam (March 13, 2017). "Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Children’s Author and Filmmaker, Dies at 51". The New York Times. Retrieved on 22 November 2019.
* The word literature enters the room with its nose in the air. But get it in a corner, ask the right questions, and it will reluctantly fess up to its humble origins. It hails from the Latin 'litterae,' you whisper in your date's ear. It puts on a big act, but it literally just means 'things made of letters.
** From Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2016). Textbook. Dutton. ISBN 978-1-101-98454-3. , as quoted in McAlpin, Heller (August 9, 2016). "'Textbook' Tries To Extend Kid-Lit Playfulness To Adult Reading". NPR. Retrieved on 22 November 2019.
* There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle ... I'm going with B, everything.
** From Amy Krouse Rosenthal (2016). Textbook. Dutton. ISBN 978-1-101-98454-3. , as quoted in McAlpin, Heller (August 9, 2016). "'Textbook' Tries To Extend Kid-Lit Playfulness To Adult Reading". NPR. Retrieved on 22 November 2019.

## Quotes about

* My wife gave me a gift at the end of her column when she left me that empty space, one I would like to offer you. A blank space to fill. The freedom and permission to write your own story. Here is your empty space. What will you do with your own fresh start?
** Her husband Jason, writing of her piece Amy Krouse Rosenthal (March 3, 2017). "You May Want to Marry My Husband". The New York Times. Retrieved on 22 November 2019. , published 10 days before her death, as quoted in Aggeler, Madeleine (June 15, 2018). "Read This and Cry … It’s Friday". The Cut. Retrieved on 22 November 2019.

## External links

* Official website
# Amy Lee

Amy Lee (born 13 December 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician who is the co-founder, lead vocalist, main songwriter and keyboardist of the rock band Evanescence.

## Quotes

* Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
** Explaining her song "Call Me When You're Sober" in "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs" at VH1 News (18 September 2006)
* I saw Amadeus when I was nine years old and fell in love with Mozart. The part of Mozart's Requiem called "Lacrymosa" is my favorite piece of music ever. I always wished we could cover it, but with programming and guitars and make it cool. It's our moment to try all the things I wanted to and couldn't, so I started messing with it in Protools. Terry wrote some riffs and turned it into this awesome metal epic.
** Explaining her song "Lacrymosa", in "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs" at VH1 News (18 September 2006)

## External links

* Evanescence.com
* AmyLeeOfficial.com
# Amy Grant

Amy Lee Grant (born 25 November 1960) is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She started in contemporary Christian music (CCM) before a successful crossover to pop music in the 1980s and 1990s. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop". As of 2009, she had sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, won six Grammy Awards, 22 Gospel Music Association Dove Awards, and had the first Christian album to go Platinum.

## Song lyrics
### Heart in Motion (1991)

* Believing in the one thing That has gotten us this far — That's what love is for To help us through it That's what love is for Nothing else can do it Melt our defenses Bring us back to our senses Give us strength to try once more Baby, that's what love is for.
** "That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
* Sometimes I see you And you don't know why I'm there And I'm washed away by emotions I hold deep down inside Getting stronger with time It's living through the fire And holding on we find That's what love is for …
** "That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
* Round off the edges Talk us down from the ledges Give us strength to try once more Baby, that's what love is for That's what love is for
** "That's What Love Is For", co-written with Michael Omartian and Mark Mueller
* True love is frozen in time I'll be your champion and you'll be mine I will remember you So please remember I will remember you
** "I Will Remember You", co-written with Gary Chapman and Keith Thomas

## External links

* Official Amy Grant website
* Amy Grant on IMDb
* Amy Grant Media Gallery
* Amy Grant Partners with Compassion International
# Amy Kleinhans

Amy Kleinhans born 1968 is a South African beauty queen who was Miss South Africa 1992,[1] the first non-white winner in the history of South Africa. She placed Top 5 to Miss World as Miss World Africa on 12 December 1992.
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## External links

* Site description 2
# Amy Jadesimi

Amy Jadesimi (born 1976) is a Nigerian businesswoman and the chief executive officer of the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics Base (LADOL), a privately owned logistics and engineering facility in the Port of Lagos, Nigeria.

## Quotes

* Don’t imagine that just because you hear fantastic stories about people who drop out of school and make a fortune, and do things the easy way, that this is typical. It is far from typical. If you work hard, even if you don’t get what you are aiming for, you will get something.
** Amy Jadesimi's quote about hard work.
* The process you’re educating yourself, you are learning about yourself, you are learning about other people, you are meeting people, and people can see your work and your passion – and it will lead to something.
** Amy Jadesimi's quote about hard work.
* We're about sustainability because it is the smartest, most effective, most profitable business strategy.
** Amy Jadesimi's Speech about Sustainability.
* “My [paternal] grandfather was a bishop in the Anglican Church, while my [maternal] grandfather was Nigeria’s first Finance Minister, Festus Samuel Okotie Eboh,”
* “I grew up with a very strong sense of pride in what it means to be Nigerian and what we can achieve as a people, which strongly contradicted the feedback I got from the world. For me, it is very important as Nigerians that we take time out to look for our personal heroes and learn about our heritage, who we actually are and what we have achieved as a people, instead of listening to the negative narrative the world gives us.”
* “I think people more easily dismiss a woman in the workplace or try to put women down,”
* “I have found that you have to set your mind to be 100-percent professional at all times. You must know what you are talking about before you open your mouth and do your work in such a way that you leave no excuse or doubt for people to derogate you or your work because you are a woman… I think you also have to be smart about how you come across to people as a woman.”
* “We need a continental-focused solution that is developed by the [African Union], and targets making the trade agreement a mechanism for local industrialisation,”
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## Quotes about the year

* The things that were happening in 1955 were cosmic … in terms of music history.
** Frank Zappa interviewed (5 March 1969), broadcast on Pop Chronicles, Show 14 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Phil Spector & Frank Zappa review the '50s
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# Alison Lurie

Alison Stewart Lurie (September 3, 1926 – December 3, 2020) was an American novelist and academic. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 1984 novel Foreign Affairs. Although better known as a novelist, she wrote many non-fiction books and articles, particularly on children's literature and the semiotics of dress.

## Quotes

* Children who seem unlikely to do well ... sometimes find that their work stays on the kitchen wall longer than usual; and so it was with me. I was encouraged to be creative past the usual age because I didn't have much else going for me. I was a skinny, plain, off-looking little girl, deaf in one badly damaged ear from a birth injury, and with a resulting atrophy of the facial muscles that pulled my mouth sideways whenever I opened it to speak and turned my smile into a sort of sneer. I was clever, or, as one of my teachers put it, "too clever for her own good," but not especially charming or affectionate or helpful. I couldn't seem to learn to ride a bike or sing in tune, and I was always the last person chosen for any team.
** "No One Asked Me to Write a Novel", The New York Times (June 6, 1982), sec. 7, p. 13
* You come to a certain age and you know there is no event that can ruin your life. Or completely change it.
** From an interview with Sally Vincent, as cited in "What you always knew", The Guardian (17 September 2005)
# Alisen Down

Alisen Down (January 3, 1976–) is a Canadian film and television actress and wife of David Richmond-Peck.

## Quotes

* I naturally believe that there’s more to it than we think which scares me. I like to try and find out the science behind things. A part of me likes to know that if need be, I can rely on some kind of scientific answer so I am not terrified of the other side. I need some sort of balance. I like knowing that there’s more to this world than what we physically see and feel gives me a sense of hope. I can believe in a universe that’s greater than myself. That’s comforting.
* I’m from Vancouver so the first ten years of my career were spent there and a lot of sci-fi shows were shot there. So really, a lot of what I auditioned for was sci-fi. But I actually really like the genre! I like the challenge of walking into that weird world and making it seem as if that’s the regular world. A lot of my sci-fi work has been because those were most of the shows I auditioned for but I also really like that genre because it’s really cool and really imaginative.
** A Woman You Should Meet: Alisen Down (September 19, 2014)
* Some auditions you get, and you feel like you already know the character. I got into her skin a little easier, and that's always a big draw. You don't have to struggle as much.
** BWW Interview: Alisen Down Chats about GRACEPOINT's Pillar of Integrity (November 18, 2014 )
* I admire Kathy, I admire everything she stands for and everything she does in the show
** Alisen Down Discusses the Mysteries Surrounding ‘Gracepoint’ (December 17, 2014)
* I think that as long as somebody feels passion and there’s passion behind the words, it doesn’t really matter how loud or soft they are, they’ll reach you.
** 12 Monkeys: Alisen Down On Why We Love Olivia (July 6, 2018)
# Alison Jaggar

Alison Mary Jaggar (born September 23, 1942) is an American feminist philosopher born in England.

## Quotes

* Historically, working-class women and women of color have been excluded from intellectual work. This exclusion must be challenged. Working-class women, women of color, and other historically silenced women must be enabled to participate as subjects as well as objects in feminist theorizing.
** Feminist Politics and Human Nature (1983), p. 386
# Alison Becker

Alison Helene Becker (born 8 March 1977) is an American actress, comedian, television personality and television writer.

## Quotes

* I think [one eco tip is] just giving a little present to someone who might be a little close-minded or stubborn about being green. Last year in all of my gifts I gave an environmentally-friendly light bulb. I thought that was such a great little gift to ease certain people into it. You know there are certain people, maybe family members, who are a little old fashion, or certain people that you work with that don’t really think about things like that. So you have to put it in front of them. And everyone needs a light bulb eventually. So the next time their light bulb goes out they’re gonna reach for it and they’ll see how great it is.
** "Farm Sanctuary Exclusive: Alison Becker Heads To LA With Dreams Of Electric Cars", interview with Ecorazzi (10 December 2008).
# Alison Lohman

Alison Lohman (born 18 September 1979) is an American actress who was born in Palm Springs, California. Although her family has no show business connections, she has been acting since age 9.

## Quotes
### Interview with Rebecca Murray

* I wanted to look young in this role, it was a needed thing. She’s 14. This role I really needed to feel 14, I had to be 14 in every way possible, so I hung out with my 14 year-old cousin for a month. She had a retainer and pigtails and all that. There’s something in their eyes, between age 10 and 15 I think, it’s just that sort of ‘anything is possible’ look. For me, the most beautiful thing you could ever see is like a child’s eyes. I wanted to really make sure that I captured her spirit, that youthful spirit. For me it’s all about dreaming. What does she look like when she walks? What’s the look in her eye? It’s not about, ‘Oh, on this move, I’m going to put my arm like that.’ It’s just the whole spirit, so that any way that I would move would be right.
** On her role in Matchstick Men.
* Without even saying anything, just his eyes... It’s not like he forces you to do it, but the power that he has, it’s something in his spirit. It’s almost like intangible and kind of magical. He has an energy that kind of lifts you. Any doubt that you had is just gone. You just do it – it’s really simple. It was so easy to work with him."
** Of Ridley Scott.
* I figured he'd be like a genius, because he is. He’s very, very subtle and nuanced. It’s very much in the eyes. That’s how it is in real life. He’s such a great actor. I was just amazed that I got the chance to work with him.
** Of Nicholas Cage.

### Interview in USA Today, 7 Oct 2002

with Claudia Puig
* I wore a blue spandex outfit and a gold belt. It was goofy and off-the-wall, but I love doing things like that.
** On her role in Kraa! the Sea Monster.
* One of the reasons I've hesitated to be an actor is you have to do talk shows and interviews. I'm really a private person and not into telling everything about me. Michelle [Pfeiffer] told me to think of doing publicity as the work and acting as the fun part.
* She's so young and so impressionable. There's an innocence and a vulnerability that you almost can't really manufacture. It's like a look in the eye that a young girl has that a 23-year-old doesn't.
** On her role in White Oleander.

## External links

* Alison Lohman on IMDb
# Alisa Childers

Alisa Childers (April 17, 1975 –) is an American Christian singer.

## Quotes

* I came to the conclusion that not only was the Gospel I was given as a child objectively true in reality, but that the Christian worldview was the best explanation for the way the world actually is.
** Interview with Alisa Childers: "Another Gospel?" Edrei Lael Apologética

## External links

* Official website
# Alisa Valdes

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez (born February 28, 1969 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American author, journalist, and film producer.

## Quotes

* The biggest driving force in my life has been justice — and by that I don’t mean revenge. I mean fairness for all kinds of people. I think it comes in part from being the daughter of an immigrant who was grossly underestimated for most of his career and life, and the sort of despair you feel watching that happen, the sense that things aren’t fair from a very early age…
** On the theme that permeates her work in “From Dirty Girls to Enlightened Ladies” in AARP (Winter 2010)
* Never sat down and thought: “I’m going to create a new genre.” I just sat down and wrote a book that I wanted to read but couldn’t find. In retrospect, I don’t think it’s a new genre; it’s just a novel. There’s an unfortunate tendency in the publishing industry to view ethnicity as a genre and only for certain people. So if you are a minority, your race or ethnicity becomes your genre. Or if you are a woman, your sex becomes your genre. “Women’s fiction”: What does that even mean? Would we ever dare say “commercial men’s fiction”? I think these are marketing terms.
** On what she aimed for when writing her 2003 novel The Dirty Girls Social Club work in “From Dirty Girls to Enlightened Ladies” in AARP (Winter 2010)
* There are writers in commercial women’s fiction who get really worked up, and they blog about [the label] and rail against the establishment. I can empathize and understand that frustration, but at the same time, it’s a waste of energy. I look at what the readers and writers of the romance genre have done in creating a parallel universe where they sell millions of books to readers who know these writers are good. They don’t need the stamp of approval. And what I love about my readers is that they are far more sophisticated, in my opinion, than most literary critics, and far less insecure. At the end of the day, people are reading my books and communicating directly with me, thanks to technology.
** On how she views the term “chick lit” in “From Dirty Girls to Enlightened Ladies” in AARP (Winter 2010)
* As a bisexual woman (who, as it happens, is faithfully married to a man and therefore living a “straight” life) I feel it is important to include homosexual or bisexual characters in my work. I am living proof that such things are not “choices,” but innate…
** On how she tries to include LGBT characters in her works in “Interview With Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez” in AfterEllen.com (2008 Sep 25)
* I think labels are generally used to benefit those who invented them, and those who invent them tend not to be those upon whom they are foisted. That said, labels can be tools of empowerment or marginalization, depending on who is using them and why…
** On how she views “labels” in society in “Interview With Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez” in AfterEllen.com (2008 Sep 25)