Louise Woodward Quotes
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My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what was being lost. One of my earliest poems, 'Give and Take,' was about my Aunt Sugar, how I was losing her to her memory loss.
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.
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My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
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I believe the biggest impediment we have right now with going to Mars is public commitment. More people need to see themselves as a part of space travel; we need to see more inclusiveness.
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There's no glamour in stupid mistakes.
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
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I had worked my whole life. Until I became a mother, that's the only way I measured my value.
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Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.
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I would like to go to University and be like a normal 20 year old.
