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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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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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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It seemed that she had not so much misjudged the woman as assigned her to completely the wrong species.
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The road to success, and by that I mean... the possibility of giving the best one has to the cause that one loves most, is not easy.
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Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. New information comes in all time, and the thing we ought to be thinking about doing is changing our beliefs as that new information comes in.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday.
