Blake Morrison Quotes
At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.
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I've played sports and been active my whole life.
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How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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I'd decided to take the risk, and either I'd succeed or else.
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She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
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The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
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It slaps your dignity just right. I loved the idea of these proud, dignified black men, and I saw the older ones wounded, and it wounded me ten times as much because I couldn't stand seeing them hurt like this.
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Good writing is everything.
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I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
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I don't think any one 'ship' - like a Bughead or a Barchie or Varchie fans - should give up hope at any time because you never know.
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At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
