Ted Hughes Quotes
The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it.
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Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
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No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
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I had never heard much about Nashville before coming out here, and that's why it's so surprising, because I'm the biggest enthusiast on the city of Nashville now. I'm looking for a place out here to live.
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Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.
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It's very complicated. There's been this broader mechanism, an industry, which wants people to use free services, from the old days of advertising-supported papers and magazines, to ad-supported free television.
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So this is me swallowing my pride,Standing in front of youSaying I'm sorry for that night.And I go back to December all the time.Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you,Wishing that I realized what I had when you were mine.I go back to December, turn around and make it all right.I go back to December all the time.
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Boxing is the sweet science. You hit and not get hit. There's no reward for you to hit me more than I hit you other than on the scorecards.
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The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
