John Denham Quotes
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
Quotes to Explore
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got great grades and Carl got the kind of grades I did. I failed everything. I was too busy fighting and running wild.
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'Then one can't make a living out of poetry?''Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.'
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One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.
