John Masefield Quotes
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
Dambisa Moyo
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
Ursula Andress
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History will treat me right.
Ralph Abernathy
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.
Ian Mcewan
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.
Dorothy Dunnett
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We laughed until we had to cry, we loved until we said goodbye.
Melissa de la Cruz
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I've always been into 'fast-paced, don't bore 'em, keep it moving along, stick with the story.' You know: tell a story the way I want to hear a story. I find it more rewarding to write for kids, but I also find it a little easier, because you can just let loose a little bit more in terms of fantasy and stuff.
James Patterson
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.
Naomi Shihab Nye
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
John Masefield