Basil Bunting Quotes
Mine was a threeplank bed whereonI lay and cursed the weary sun.They took away the prison clothesand on the frosty nights I froze.I had a Bible where I readthat Jesus came to raise the dead-I kept myself from going madby singing an old bawdy balladand birds sang on my windowsilland tortured me till I was ill
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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I would say if you have a dream, follow it. It doesn't really matter whether you are a woman or from India or from wherever.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Sometimes you are strong, sometimes you are weak.
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I've been an entrepreneur all my life, and my recent focus is on finding entrepreneurial solutions to address global challenges in healthcare and education.
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Votes are like trees, if you are trying to build a forest. If you have more trees than you have forests, then at that point the pollsters will probably say you will win.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Film, you're kind of there with some people for two or three months or so unless it's a really huge picture, and then you go away, so you don't get quite as close to the people.
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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I'm pretty sure I'm not at war with myself.
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Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
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Mine was a threeplank bed whereonI lay and cursed the weary sun.They took away the prison clothesand on the frosty nights I froze.I had a Bible where I readthat Jesus came to raise the dead-I kept myself from going madby singing an old bawdy balladand birds sang on my windowsilland tortured me till I was ill
