C. Day Lewis Quotes
It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Everything I say is true.
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There's no such thing as work-life balance. There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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The nation will be shaped for decades by decisions that are made by President Bush and the Senate about the future of the Supreme Court.
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It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.
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I never really considered writing something that was nonfiction.
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At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.
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I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.
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If people just want to be famous, that's just not enough to get you up at 4 in the morning to go to work. You have to love what you're doing.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering.
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It is unwise to equate scientific activity with what we call reason, poetic activity with what we call imagination. Without the imaginative leap from facts to generalisation, no theoretic discovery in science is made. The poet, on the other hand, must not imagine but reason--that is to say, he must exercise a great deal of consciously directed thought in the selection and rejection of his data: there is a technical logic, a poetic reasoning in his choice of the words, rhythms and images by which a poem's coherence is achieved.
