Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of two girls accepted that year. This was September 1969 - well, that would have been 1970 - into the School Of Languages And Linguistics in Georgetown.
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I'm a big baseball fan, and I feel proprietary about the Dodgers. I'm not the owner. I'm not the manager. But I feel passionate about the decisions that they make, and I take it personally when they make decisions I don't like.
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Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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It is the woman - nearly always - in spite of all the advances of modern feminism, who still takes responsibility for the bulk of the chores, as well as doing her paid job. This is true even in households where men try to be unselfish and to do their share.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
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I'm guilty of eating Magnum bars before I go to sleep at night.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
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The problem of the Panthers is that they scared people. The music of N.W.A didn't scare people; it taught people what it was like to grow up in our inner cities.
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Be kind. Every person you meet is fighting a difficult battle.
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With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.
