Alice Oswald Quotes
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
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My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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We take a lot for granted as second wave feminists, what our mothers and aunts did for us.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
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Let us nurture the practice of family values, by embracing policies that value families.
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I don't go through life verbalizing what I feel.
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People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be.
