Alice Oswald Quotes
There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I'm easily entertained.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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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'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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I like, very much, nature. Since I'm always together with people, I like to retreat.
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People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.
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As much as I encourage communication with my readers, I don't want reviews from them, simply because I don't need to be hamstrung in the middle of working on something.
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There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
