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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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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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 like owning dirt. You know, I spent a lot of time broke when I moved to California. So deep in my soul is still this idea of being un-employed. To me, owning land means you could sell it at some point and have money.
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It is for the sake of order that I seduced Clytemnestra, for the sake of order that I killed my king. I wanted for order to rule and that it rule through me. I have lived without desire, without love, without hope: I made order. Oh! terrible and divine passion!
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Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.
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I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.
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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.
