James Fenton Quotes
Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
James Fenton
Quotes to Explore
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
Barbara Smith
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
R. L. Stine
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
Dan Marino
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
Hannah More
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I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people.
Barack Obama
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I gotta say, Pluto is such a great character, and if I ever got to work with him, I'd be very happy. The scene where he gets caught in fly paper, he's such a great dog!
Bob Peterson
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Rejoice in the great, free emancipation of peoples.
Marine Le Pen
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
Craig T. Nelson
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Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
James Fenton
