Eyvind Johnson Quotes
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
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A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
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My inspiration is love and history.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's no better feeling. It's beauteous. But it's always about hard work and inspiration and sweat and good ideas.
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Balachander is my inspiration. He had a heart problem 40 years back. He has been making films for another 46 years. He can never grow old. My father used to be like that until he suffered a stroke. Then I suddenly realized he was an old man.That's also true of my brothers Chandra Haasan and to an extent Charu Haasan.I can never imagine them being old.
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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.
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There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.
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I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't.
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As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun.
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If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But still, everything passes throught your imagination. What you produce at the end is very different from the reality you started with.
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Student cartoonists as well as professionals should always be careful that they're not doing a cartoon that already has been done.
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I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
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I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy.
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From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.
