Thomas Hood Quotes
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
Thomas Hood
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I had left school at 16, gone to stage school - and, until I was 22, I hadn't really played anyone but myself. Then in 1979, I made a film with Mike Leigh called 'Grownups,' which went out on the BBC, and overnight this new career opened up.
Lesley Manville
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The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
Debi Thomas
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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
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Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonderful life.
Katherine Heigl
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He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.
Matthew Sweet
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For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
Margaret Heffernan
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
Ed Harris
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I've tried every which way for writing lyrics - everything from using really bizarre imagery and metaphors, sort of obscuring the facts of what I'm singing about, all the way over to a song like 'Losing My Mind,' where you're just reading my thoughts as they're occurring.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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Writing is something that I am ever driven to do, and concerning which I am never satisfied.
Nora Waln
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What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone.
Thomas Hood
