Simon Armitage Quotes
And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.
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Really, of all the important mission responsibilities assigned to United States Strategic Command by the president, none is more important than our responsibility to deter a strategic attack on the United States and our allies and partners.
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I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
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'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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Surviving is the only glory in war.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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I love anything to do with ventriloquism and magic.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I like to call it 'album making' because everybody hears the word scrapbooking and thinks, 'All the glue and the glitter - I don't have time for that!'
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I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.
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At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun...
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Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?
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The second that I watched 'Glee' with my brother, I loved it. I fell in love with it and I saw myself there.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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Life is a beautiful struggle People search through the rubble for a suitable hussle Some people using their noodle Some people using their muscle Some people put it all together make it fit like a puzzle
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Wars and conflicts begin in the mind, then they are expressed in words and then executed through physical action, so personal transformation is intricately connected with the social and political transformation.
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And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.
