Babette Deutsch Quotes
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.
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I wrote poetry before I wrote songs, and T.S. Eliot was my inspiration. I love his honesty and try to bring that to my own songwriting.
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The important thing is having genuine regard for your audience.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
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I think the CG is an instrument to create reality. I don't think it's an instrument to create a heightened reality.
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I think I've explained earlier on in the year that I kind of underestimated how important experience was in this series, especially when you're up against such good quality drivers.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.
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History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.
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You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.
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I myself have been a major beneficiary of the view that no animal will more repay treatment that is kind and fair.
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin and guide of its contours and gradients and of all the lives - the plants and small creatures, and the culture - that evolved here. That was always here to be seen, of course, and the recognition has forced itself, in one form or other, upon people in every part of the world who have been directly involved with the growing of living things. The gardener who ignores it is soon left with no garden.
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You live with life's disappointments and learn from them. At seventy-eight, I know it all.
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Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
