Alice Oswald Quotes
A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.
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I am a Buddhist.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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Writing is just very difficult. I'm an adequate performer. And I think I have a special talent as an editor. Editing is what I do best.
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I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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I don't like talking to celebrities.
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It's superficial that people think I'm cool because I wear certain clothes and I have tattoos. The funniest part is, when they get to know me, they're always surprised by how nerdy I am.
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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.
