John Masefield Quotes
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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When you tell the American people, 'Read my lips. No new taxes,' that should mean no new taxes.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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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.
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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.
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History will treat me right.
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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.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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The only reason to do this job is because I love playing my music. And I love my bandmates.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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Being a pastor's kid comes with a lot of pressure and scrutiny. A lot of my dad's sermons were about respect. It was a beautiful way to be taught about love and two people being equal.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
