A. E. Housman Quotes
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I'm a good driver.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
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I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
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A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I had the chance to go to Tiger Woods Golf Camp. He taught me how to swing and was hitting the ball, and this dude was unreal.
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Generally, you want to raise capital either when you have to or when it's really easy. If the company desperately needs money, and they can't figure out any other way, then they need to raise money. Or if someone's offering you easy money on good terms, you should take it because you can use it for good things.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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In my opinion, whenever you get two guys who want to fight each and two guys who want to be in a good fight, you let them fight.
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I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry.
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Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.
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Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me.
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I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me.
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
