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.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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Water really does great things for my skin.
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I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one.
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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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.
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The Olympics: not one of my better memories.
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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.
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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.
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My childhood was as conventional as you could get.
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Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
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People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.
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Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work.
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Embrace the melancholic voice completely in the drafting stages, to explore it for all it's worth. Then, in revision, privilege craft over pure feeling. Write the work that someone besides you will want to read.
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All men of action are dreamers.
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Everybody's got to work with Roger Corman. You can't leave out that experience.
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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.
