Basil Bunting Quotes
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I think Gadi Eizenkot is a very good commander.
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As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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For the average person, many folks who don't have health insurance initially, they're going to have to make some choices. And they might end up having to switch doctors, in part because they're saving money.
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
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We found ... that being a good parent to one's own child was never and in no way enough; until we were all responsible for all the children of the world, no child would ever be safe, no society could survive.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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Gin the goodwife stintand the bairns hungerthe Duke can get his rentone year longer.
