John Drinkwater Quotes
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
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I write in a small office at home.
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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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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
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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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The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
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I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.
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I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
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It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.
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The progress of the Way seems retreating.
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There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?
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Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
