Dannie Abse Quotes
I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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I don't do negative things.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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When I came to MSNBC, its identity as the place for politics was growing.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from religious belief.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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To put it simply and a bit crudely: Our economy is demanding more well-educated workers than our schools are providing. To attract this scarce resource, communities have to offer more than just jobs.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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Joe Mauer's the real deal. He is absolutely wonderful. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great human being. He's the kind of guy you'd like to see... be your son.
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Everybody can relate to being real or true. Somehow, someway, you want to be real and true.
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But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.
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I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.
