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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I challenge any American family to think about what they would do if they were invaded by a hostile force. If tanks pulled up outside their house, and there were armed men inside, would they send their kids out? A lot of Americans would fight that to the end.
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I've never gotten up in front of a Muslim congregation and played the role of a religious leader, and I decline those invitations because that's not what I am.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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This old world keeps spinnin’ round; It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down.
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The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
