Alice Oswald Quotes
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It's those damn critics again.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
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In the acting community in New York we call 'Law & Order' 'grad school,' because everyone eventually does a 'Law & Order.' My first one was in 1995, which was a year after I got out of school. Matthew Blanchard was the character's name.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.
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With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.
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When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
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You have to follow that next step.
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I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears.
