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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A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
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Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It becomes very tempting to ask whether, in principle, it's possible to create a universe in the laboratory-or a universe in your backyard-by man-made processes.
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I think I'm always somehow interested in characters who want to make one perfect thing, to transcend humanness, even if only for a moment.
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The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.
