Ted Hughes Quotes
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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Rushing to war is not a wise course of action.
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This is kind of weird, but I eat lemons with salt as snack. They're so good!
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.
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It's a little hard not to be an elitist when you're making millions of dollars a year.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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For me, comedy literally is way more terrifying than doing drama, so it's always about stretching what I think I can do and putting myself out there in different context.
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Anything that got to do with a pig, I ain't eatin'.
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Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.
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When I was 18, I drove from New York to California to be a movie star. Not an actor, mind you, but a movie star. Have you ever heard of anything so silly?
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I always breathe cricket.
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'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.
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And so to Mrs. Martin and there did what je voudrais avec her, both devante and backward, which is also muy bon plazer.
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'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'
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I’ve really noticed over the last few years how many people are turning towards eating vegetarian or vegan. … Everyone’s realizing that these things are delicious and good for you. And I think it’s an indication of how we’re becoming more conscious of what we do to our bodies by what we put into them and what we do to the planet.
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Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
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There's always a wine bully. The one person who did read the 'Wine Spectator,' who tells you what to drink and why the '97 is better than the '98. I want to punch the wine bully in the face. I want to make sure this generation of wine drinkers isn't elitist and snotty. I want it to be about family and bringing people together.
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I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.
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No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.
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I still feel normal. Like, I don't feel like I'm a superstar.
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The gash in its throat was shocking, but not pathetic.
