Alice Oswald Quotes
One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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My father established the first women's university in the kingdom, abolished slavery, and tried to establish a constitutional monarchy that separates the position of king from that of prime minister.
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When you're making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors' availability. When you're using big actors for small films, you're in second or third position to the big monoliths.
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My true dream, ever since I was a kid, was to play professional baseball. It's something that I worked my whole life for. But that didn't work out with the knee surgeries and whatnot.
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Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
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There is no moment more precious than the exact moment they are living. And that exact moment has a lot to do with how future moments play out.
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One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of invoking a ghost. Maybe the 'Iliad,' crowded with names, is more than a poem. Maybe it's a dangerous piece of the brightness of both this world and the next.
