John Drinkwater Quotes
When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
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I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven.
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I just want a big HBO special or a network or somebody willing to get behind my work and promote it. The most frustrating thing for me is to have this successful act that resonates across the country, and the network guys just don't get it. Everyone sees it except them. I want to leave a mark.
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You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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Less is only more where more is no good.
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It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
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I grew up in New Orleans. I had just moved into my dorm at the University of New Orleans, and I was doing laundry, and my mom called me, like, 'We've got to evacuate. There's a hurricane's coming.'
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How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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You don't need a new life, just a new lens through which to view the one you have.
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I certainly wouldn't want a song that I'd already written to be used on a commercial. That seems strange.
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The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.
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When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life.
