K. J. Bishop Quotes
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
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Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.
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Che rilevare un che Fortuna ruoteTalora al fondo, e consolar l'afflitto,Mai non fu biasmo, ma gloria sovente.
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The superior man limits his achievements.
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You can persuade a man to believe almost anything provided he is clever enough, but it is much more difficult to persuade someone less clever.
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I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.
