Wendy Cope Quotes
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
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There was a time when no difficult subjects were ever aired in the 'Lady', and sadly, life isn't like that.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
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That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
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I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear.
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For me personally, I'm mostly focused on writing and acting right now.
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Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life.
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I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it.
