Alice Oswald Quotes
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It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.
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I know everything about Michael Jordan.
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I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.
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'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies – they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
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I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.
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What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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Some shows, like PPG, tape in a group session, which is always more fun because you can play off each other.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
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When you first get fame, you're so insecure that you just become a ding dong.
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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.
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I shall easily show that it is impossible to tax further, ruinous to be always borrowing and not enough to confine ourselves to measures of economy.
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My gratification in working comes from the preparation and the building of the character.
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I really think there are spirits in a place that you have to accommodate.
