Laurie Lee Quotes
These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.
Quotes to Explore
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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I love cycling.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
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I run or walk three times a week. I do Pilates, too, which is amazing - it makes you longer and leaner.
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I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.
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The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.
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These poems were written by someone I once was and who is so distant to me now that I scarcely recognize him anymore. They speak for a time and a feeling which of course has gone from me but for which I still have a close affection and kinship.
