John Betjeman Quotes
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
Quotes to Explore
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I always drive like a madman.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I am definitely quick to adapt. I am not scared to come into a new environment.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.
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With BSG, sci-fi is the human experience taken beyond the envelope. When I first became involved with the project, I knew that I would be able to play a human being for many years, exploring and reflecting on issues that would impact people's lives.
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
