John Drinkwater Quotes
The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
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There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.
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Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
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Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!
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I hate morning workout; I'm a night person more. But it's good to work out in the mornings because then you can have all day free.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
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I still listen to a lot of the classics from Bob Dylan and John Martin, but I love electronic music as well. I'm a big fan of an Australian DJ and producer called Flume, who I think is incredible. He should be more successful in the U.K.!
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I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
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The range of my interests in science fiction - it really does run a gamut.
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My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.
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Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
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Art, rightly applied, provided humanity with the symbols, insight, and vicarious experience necessary to help one person place him- or herself in the shoes of another, and by so doing come to appreciate the commonality of human experience.
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Environment, education, experience, make men conscious of passing reality but overwhelm their intuitive capacity when this is not very strong.
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No, my profile has leaped over recent years, so has my life experience, and I look forward to the next 30 years being even more rewarding and satisfying than the previous 60!
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When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.
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The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.
