David Daiches Quotes
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.
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History will treat me right.
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
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I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'
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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.
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Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.
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Oh, honey, I'm from Oklahoma! This is who I am - middle-class all the way!
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
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With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.
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People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind...
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I work with people I admire and respect. It's never because of who they are.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
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In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.
