C. Day Lewis Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world.
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
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If you think back , the Academy was doing a better job. Think about how many more African Americans were nominated.We need to get better at this. We used to be better at it.
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And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.
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A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
