Quotes About Recognition

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

I don't feel like a celebrity. Poetry justifies celebrity. It's good to have respect for a poet.

What's really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

It wasn't until I was named Youth Poet Laureate of L.A. in high school though that I officially began calling myself a poet. I just always loved writing, period.

Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ever mentioned.

The American public does not know poets exist.

Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.

I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail you and make demands upon you.

I was never that much a focus of interest that I became a 'thing' at an earlier point in my career. I'm aware of having become a 'thing' now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

If someone wants to call me a Harlem Globetrotter, well, great, go ahead. I was very good at basketball. I was a really good point guard. I was the best passer.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view - I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.

From an actor's point of view, if you are watching something, and you see improv, you know it. Because of your experience, you just bloody know that wasn't written.

It is such a special thing. As a kid growing up, you look at the Ballon d'Or and how it is the top of the top from a personal point of view.

David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.

It... does... not... have... to... be... pointed out all the time. Like, 'Isn't it great that you're black, and you're a woman?' Isn't it great that the show's good? I would just love for it not to be a thing - for it just to be, like, super norm.

I thought I was an actor until they pointed the camera at me.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

A person who can go out and get 40 is going to get a lot more respect than somebody who goes out and holds somebody to two points. It's just the nature of the game. It doesn't bother me.

As a player, you look where I've come from, averaging 'X' amount of points, to where I am now, an All-Star.

I feel flattered that people like the way I look, but it doesn't help you win points.

I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.