Nicole Blackman Quotes
When I knew what I had to do I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts and ate them page by page so I could take my words with me.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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I'd rather be known for my accomplishments, and for things that I really do take pride in, rather than known for this doll-like image I had when I was a child.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.
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Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.
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Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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If you want to understand Jesus, you have to study the whole Bible. Christian duty is not defined solely by the words in red.
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I take full pride in the fact that I'm from Chandigarh.
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I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
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It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.
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Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.
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All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
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Panama: '...a deadly spot the end of the world almost....There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal...; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words....the Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty' (31 March - 1 April 1920)
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He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
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When you fall down, just get up again.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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'The Oath' seems like the perfect project for me, coming off the back of a big-scale adventure film like 'Everest.' I want to delve into an intimate, dark and psychological world where the characters are claustrophobic.
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Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated.
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When I knew what I had to do I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts and ate them page by page so I could take my words with me.
