Craig Raine Quotes
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.Craig Raine
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
Barbara Bush -
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole -
I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.
Patrick deWitt -
When all are wrong, everyone is right.
Ed Koch -
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
Harmony Korine -
The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
Wayne Rogers
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
Saad Hariri -
One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
Larry Wilmore -
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
Ion Tiriac -
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose -
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
Wayne Coyne -
The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment and proven values. America needs four more years of President Barack Obama.
Rahm Emanuel -
I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
Uzo Aduba -
While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
Earl Butz
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We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.'
Samuel L. Jackson -
If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
L'Wren Scott -
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
George Herbert -
I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
Gail Simmons -
I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.
Craig Raine