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Tony Harrison Quotes

There's a kind of despair about whether art can really do anything, but you have to incorporate that despair into the way you work. I try to soak my work in my sense of futility and fury.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: April 30, 1937

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Work Art You Kind Way Try

I'm not itching to sue Amazon or Wal-Mart... they sell a lot of books. But the future is very uncertain with books.

John Grisham

Future Wal-Mart Sell Books Uncertain

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

Matthew Rhys

Life Myself Private Life Up Get

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

Sophocles

Excellence Woman Luxury House Ever

First, you have stereotypes, and that will be the black drug dealer, the east Asian kung fu master, the Middle Eastern terrorist in 'True Lies.' Then you have stuff that takes place on culturally specific terrain, that engages with it, but actually subverts assumptions. 'Smashes' stereotypes. That's where I've come into the game.

Riz Ahmed

Game Black Assumptions You Place

Would I marry again? No. But never say never. Why marry? It's a beautiful fortress, but I don't need it.

Robin Wright

Beautiful Say Why Never Need Again

I don't plan. I don't think, 'I have to do this kind of part 'cause I've done that kind of part.' I'm not a very good planner.

Rupert Graves

Good Think Plan Done Kind Cause

The idols of one's adolescence tend to endure - you never forget how you worshipped them.

Molly Ivins

Never Forget You Forget Never Endure

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Questions Skills Him Chief Concern

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

Julia Holter

You Early Know Mean Cello Played

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Laughter Manners Folly Loud Ill

Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy.

Priscilla Presley

Life Great My Life You Back Know

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Thomas Malthus

Power Without Vice Superior Misery