John Barton Quotes

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.

John Barton

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TogetherMeaningCreateKindTest

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

Andrea McLean

ShoppingBusyInternetI CanBed

I don't think there's a more battle-hardened veteran anywhere than Larry Summers.

Roger Altman

ThinkMoreAnywhereThanVeteran

The old detective story that's got a really complicated motive doesn't apply to mine.

Ruth Rendell

StoryComplicatedOldMineApply

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

Masatoshi Koshiba

FatherSchoolWarArmyRightMonth

I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about them. Their musicality and their live performances I think would be great, and I have a feeling that there are stories behind each one of them.

Michael Rapaport

LoveLiveGreatRootsCuriosity

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Judith Guest

SmilePeopleLipsFindDamnHard

Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

Jason Bateman

WorkTimeLongYouLong TimeOut

If the practice is torture for the al Qaeda operative who masterminded the killing of three thousand Americans, why weren't there court-martials in the cases of those thousands of servicemen similarly treated as part of their training?

Jose Rodriguez

TrainingPracticeThreeWhyTorture

When you expect anything from music, you expect too much.

Josh Homme

MusicYouToo MuchAnythingExpect

I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.

Chloe Zhao

LifeLookingLateUpBigSomething

To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

Christopher Guest

RelationshipTogetherMeDoingUp

Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.

Christian Lous Lange

CommunicationMediaIntellectualPost

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