Basil Bunting Quotes
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I can always go back to education.
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Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Steve Hackett is a very underrated writer and actually a very good singer.
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With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.
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Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.
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I think musicians here India get ripped off. Music production houses take good care of artists abroad and though the upfront signing amount is much less than what I get here, the royalty takes care of future returns.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
