A. E. Housman Quotes

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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We pay taxes, and we help the city coffers.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
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If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.
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Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
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Repeating my mechanics was difficult. I was always trying to do something different to make it click.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.