John Drinkwater Quotes
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
Quotes to Explore
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.
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That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.
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'The Burning Dark' needs a certain kind of soundtrack - something dark and moody, electronic, weird. One of my favourite bands is Ladytron, and I think they'd fit the bill quite well.
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I liked being CEO of Blockbuster, but my job is to put it on the bottom line for shareholders.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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For an impression, I just find that I can do a lot of the people I love without much research, because I've already watched hours and hours of them on video and it seeped into my brain while I wasn't thinking about it.
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Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.
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Como las paga el vulgo, es justohablarle en necio para darle gusto.
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It is unlikely Yanukovich won. If he did, his government made it impossible to determine.
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My mother at a young age put me in bilingual, so my strength is really more in Spanish. Even though I live and I was born and raised in the States, you know, in the Bronx, in Spanish I get my point across. And when I'm writing music, when I'm doing music, it's easier for me, and I know exactly how to express myself.
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Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
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I think if someone were to ask me to put in one sentence what it is that I do, I would say that I try to be in action more than in words.
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But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.
