R. S. Thomas Quotes
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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From now back to the past, we can observe clearly that none of us is free.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!
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I met Michael Jordan on a golf course! I don't even know what to say. I'm still freaked out that I met him.
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That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
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Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.
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Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.
