Norman MacCaig Quotes
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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I'm relieved that after all these years of doing atrocity work, I still cry my eyes out every time I read the paper in the morning. It's surprising, actually.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
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Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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It's better to be honest about your opinions than to pretend you don't have them.
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I wasn't a businesswoman, so I didn't know how to build a career.
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I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
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I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
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I made a movie where I played a girl that just got out of prison and we shot it very very quickly but very intensely-that took me a long time to get over.
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So many girls and boys are looking up to me, and I have to conduct myself in a way that I don't disappoint too many people and I don't generate any kind of hate or propaganda for any reason. And I think we all should do that.
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I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.
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Brian Walker and David Salt have written a thoughtful and powerful book to help resource users and managers put resilience thinking into practice and aim toward increasing the sustainability of our world. I urge public officials, scholars, and students in public policy programs to place this volume on their list of must-read books. It is a powerful antidote to the overly simplified proposals too often offered as solutions to contemporary problems at multiple scales.
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We encourage employees to ship new features on day one, which immediately encourages them to come up with something creative and different.
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In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
