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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I much prefer touring to anything else. Studio work is great, and can be hugely satisfying, but live work has the excitement and the lifestyle that I love.
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I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.
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The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
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I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.
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Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
