W. S. Di Piero Quotes
When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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My man has to be more intelligent than I am, which is difficult to find. He should definitely be more successful than me, which is not so difficult to find. I'd be a fool to expect a better looking man than me, which is impossible to find.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
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If I'm played out of position, I'll always give 100%, but everyone knows I would rather play down the middle.
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All of us, just because we are able to talk, also believe we are able to talk about language.
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When you're writing - when I'm writing anyway - I'm writing out of different kinds of preoccupations and obsessions, different forms of drivenness, and so you're really hostage those while writing. I am, anyway. And it's only when you finally take the finished thing out of the furnace that you see what it was that went into the making of the thing.
