James Fenton Quotes
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I never made a movie I would not take my family to see.
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.
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I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.
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In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
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There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.
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I was purely content to sit in the car and wander around my own mind. Watching the world itself, the people in it, and my whole internal life was more than enough to keep me entertained.
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Remembering the loss of those Irishmen from all parts of the island who were sent to their deaths in the imperialist slaughter of the First World War is crucial to understanding our history. It is also important to recognise the special significance in which the Battle of the Somme and the First World War is held.
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My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
