Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
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I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
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I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
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It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
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He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
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The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
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Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.
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Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
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Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
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In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
