John Drinkwater Quotes
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They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited 'first chapters'. I have indeed written many.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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Home is the nicest word there is.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I love to draw and paint. I'm very active in that way, but I'm not very good with the written word, though.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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'Harat' is actually - it's a Lebanese dialect word. It comes from 'the mapmaker,' somebody who makes a map. And it basically means somebody who tells fibs or exaggerate tales a little bit.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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Disciples of Christ abide in His Word. Those who abide in His Word know the truth and are free.
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I have one aim only: to impart a fraction of the meaning of the word now.
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Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
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End is a gloomy word.
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Words fail me sometimes. I have read most every word in the Webster’s International Dictionary of the English Language, but I still have trouble making them come when I want them to. Right now I want a word that describes the feeling you get – a cold sick feeling deep down inside – when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don’t want it to, but you can’t stop it. And you know you will never be the same again.
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Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.
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The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.
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I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
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To me, there's nothing greater than making people laugh.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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The written word is everything.
