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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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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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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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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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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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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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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Each time I undertake to paint a picture I have a sensation of leaping into space. I never know whether I shall fall on my feet. It is only later that I begin to estimate more exactly the the effect of my work.
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Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Other people are best late at night.
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The only thing that can ruin a good day is people.
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I don't look at it like that's my rival and I have to beat her. It's more like, I have to ski this as fast as I can and the fastest of everyone out here and that's what I expect.
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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.
