Judith Wright Quotes
Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.
Quotes to Explore
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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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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I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'
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To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.
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I cannot be convinced that great artists are moralists. Art is first appearances, then meaning.
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While thus he threw his Elbow round, Depopulating all the Ground, And, with his whistling Sythe, does cut Each stroke between the Earth and Root, The edged Stele by careless chance Did into his own Ankle glance; And there among the Grass fell down, by his own Sythe, the Mower mown.
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I don't think it's a bad thing at all to get recognized for things that you've done on the field.
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Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.
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It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.
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I'm an author whose strength is in gag-writing.
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How absurd human beings are and how magnificent.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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Wit and valor are qualities that are more easily ascertained than virtue, or the love of wisdom.
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Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.
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Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.
