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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As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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To sum up, what has been our policy? We looked for and found friends all throughout the world.
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The American president has a peculiar leadership responsibility to speak out for freedom.
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Humans are an embarrassing species w/ small glimmers of beauty that seep through the veil of bigotry&stupidity, every once in a small while.
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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.
