Walter Raleigh Quotes
So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.
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I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It's a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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On a personal level, I love the idea of hosting an awards show. I think that sounds like kind of a fun thing to do.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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It's sort of cathartic - the naked exposure - don't you think? You couldn't do it voluntarily - could you? It's under duress - so somehow legitimate. Circumstances beyond our control. I think I enjoyed that.
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I have done some tacky films, but then they were all my decisions, and I'm happy to have made those because they have made me who I am.
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When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
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So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing — Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing —Stab at thee he that will,No stab the soul can kill.
