Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.
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A willingness to live with irresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense.
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No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.
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I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you
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Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.
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Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
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I think I'm a guy who is going to come in and work hard from Day One.
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The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?
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Thy fatal shafts unerring move; I bow before thine altar, Love!
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An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.
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Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?
