Kathleen Raine Quotes
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
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I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.
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I was a stock broker once. I think there is an absolute place for market investments. But they should never be the basis of one's retirement. They should be an additional piece on top of a basic, secure, guaranteed retirement benefit.
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All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table.
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If we want to discover the full potential in our humanity, we need to celebrate those heartbreaking strengths and those glorious disabilities we all have. It is our humanity and all the potential within it that makes us beautiful.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.
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Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.
