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.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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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.
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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.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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When all are wrong, everyone is right.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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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.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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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.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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I went to a really diverse and wonderful school in inner-city Pittsburgh, where all the various groups and types of people got along pretty great, and a lot of interesting stuff was going on all the time - and I still hated high school. It's just a rough, rough period in one's life.
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The red man divided mind into two parts, - the spiritual mind and the physical mind.
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I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.
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I don't know what I am. And it's not important.
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Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.
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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.
