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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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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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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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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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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My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.
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I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.
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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.
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Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.
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I've kind of always had this balance between genre and personal dramas. It almost feels like the two help each other. If I was just to make a genre film, maybe it would be hollow and soulless. If I was just to make a personal drama, maybe it would be melodramatic and nobody would ever go see it.
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So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
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I feel like every time I tweeted something that was a little opinionated, or every time I posted something on Tumblr that seemed a little private, it's all of a sudden making news relationship-wise.
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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.
