Alice Oswald Quotes
Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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You don't quit after you get beat. You pick yourself up, and you start rebuilding to accomplish your goals.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.
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The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.
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I just don't think that I trust men. That's the problem. I can appreciate a beautiful-looking man, but he's not my type.
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Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.
