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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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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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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Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
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I did software development for a while, and I also spent several years directing a nonprofit in San Francisco that did computer education for the poor. I also did a lot of work in fast food.
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I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
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If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.
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There's a whole range of words that people use about landscape. Pastoral? Idyll? I can't stand them.
