Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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People I looked up to a lot were, you know, Oprah because she had a rough childhood but overcame so many obstacles and broke barriers to become who she is. It was really eye opening to me: just because I had a rough childhood doesn't mean that I can't make something of myself.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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When playing music, it is possible to achieve a unique sense of peace.
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There was no time when I lived anywhere longer than two years. I was always a social outcast. Maybe I didn't care what people thought because I was like, 'Well, I probably won't stick around here for too long.'
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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring - not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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It is only from the perspective of the outlaw … that we are able to see that mythically informed normality is a form of mass hypnosis.
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The night had passed completely. The morning star shone in the sky. I too had become a different person. The student of Talmud, the child I was, had been consumed by the flames. All that was left was a shape that resembled me. My soul had been invaded - and devoured - by a black flame.
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I went through that stage of the Mumford & Sons and the Alanis Morissette vibe. I was in a dark place at the time.
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Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.
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As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
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Kenneth Burke calls form the satisfaction of an expectation; The Man Who Loved Children is full of such satisfactions, but it has a good deal of the deliberate disappointment of an expectation that is also form.
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A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?
