Matthew Arnold Quotes
The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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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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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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I love baseball, and the door remains open.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.
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The great thing about albums is it gives you a lot of choices, and we can all say that the album business is dead, but watch Taylor Swift. I don't think it's dead. I just think we've got to hit on the energies that make people want to collect albums.
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I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I've always been torn between the pure and the social sciences.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.
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Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light.
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I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.
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I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down.
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
