Alice Oswald Quotes
If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
Quotes to Explore
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There are two types of people in the world. People who like kids, and people who don't. People who complain about kids screaming on aeroplanes and in restaurants, and those people who love kids and enjoy their energy and enjoy hearing the noise they make and get off on their energy. I am one of those people who happens to love kids.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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I am at a stage where I want to be known as a versatile actor.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I am convinced that only by applying the values of an entrepreneur to philanthropy will you ever be able to meet the needs of the greatest number of people.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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With 'Innerspeaker' I was trying to do these hypnotic '60s grooves, but it was so hypnotic and repetitive that they sounded like they were sampled. It was making electronic sampled music but using real instruments to do it.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.
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If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.
