Alice Oswald Quotes
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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There's not a thing that any of you guys can say bad about me that would hurt my feelings... I'm not coming at you, what I'm saying is that, I'm willing to take that heat for my team, if we're playing well or if we're not playing well.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.
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But with two boys and a new puppy, we don't get out much. We're usually home doing stuff together as a family, like watching 'Modern Family.'
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It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.
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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
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Both of my parents were journalists, and my rebellion, such as it was, was to become a fiction writer.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
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I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your head is left free.
