John Betjeman Quotes
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I just never, in my career, got into doing a lot of press.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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I will fight 'GGG,' and I will beat 'GGG,' but I will not be forced into the ring by artificial deadlines.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
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I would've been a really big silent movie star.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
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When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to serve Him. No one saw what I endured... At the moment of my entrance into this new state I felt a joy so great that it has never failed me even to this day; and God converted the dryness of my soul into a very great tenderness.
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It's simply not sensible ... for the government to say there is no link whatsoever between what is happening in Iraq and what is happening in terms of recruiting extremists.
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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.
