John Lawson Quotes
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
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Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.
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Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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There's not a lot of really great, deep, serialized television, and we can see from the data that that's what people want.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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The way I was grew up gave me a slight fearlessness and a sense of independence. There are things about it that have definitely informed me. And then, as a parent, it's done the opposite. It's made me feel much more protective. There are boundaries in my kids' lives that I don't think I had.
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Baseball is about talent, hard work, and strategy. But at the deepest level, it's about love, integrity, and respect.
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I do get most of the harder-to-get stories.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
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If the big banks expect to buy influence when they give money to favored think tanks, then the public has a right to know. If the big banks don't expect to buy influence and are merely making charitable contributions, then their shareholders have a right to know. Either way, there's no excuse for keeping these payments secret.
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They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.
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The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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The Allegator is the same, as the Crocodile, and differs only in Name.
