Austin Clarke Quotes
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.Austin Clarke
Quotes to Explore
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
Harmony Korine -
I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
Wangari Maathai -
For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
Patrick Wilson -
I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Adam Carolla -
There were mornings in the make-up trailer where I'd have fits of laughter because of the extraordinary daily events of the shoot. Sometimes, it was all too much to believe. But the wildest things happened.
Madeleine Stowe -
The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
Adam McKay -
Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
Karin Slaughter -
I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift -
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
Mads Mikkelsen -
I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
Vanessa Lengies -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson -
Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
Rahm Emanuel -
Rome is a city I love very much. I have lived there since I was a child.
Paolo Sorrentino
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Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.
M. King Hubbert -
To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever-increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts, however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline - training - is about.
James Clavell -
So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.
Ben Harper -
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream
Neil Young Buffalo Springfield -
The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
Christine Flores -
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
Austin Clarke