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Tony Harrison Quotes

Coming from a very inarticulate family made me try to speak for those who can't express themselves and created a need for articulation at its most ceremonial - poetry.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Family Poetry Me Speak Try Need

We want more stuff stamped 'Made in America.'

Rob Portman

America Want More Stuff Made

The whole realm of morality and ethics is something that has escaped the attention of women, by and large. And it needs the attention of intellectual women most desperately.

Lorraine Hansberry

Women Ethics Attention Intellectual

After discovering the Ramones, I discovered really crude ways to multi-track by taking another cassette recorder and plugging that into the eight-track, playing it back, so that as I was recording with the mic in my guitar, I could have another cassette player I had recorded on feeding into the recording.

Lou Barlow

Guitar Back Feeding Playing Mic

When you have bad teams, you've got to be creative to win games you're not supposed to win.

Don Nelson

Creative Win You Bad Games Got

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

Claude Chabrol

Men Woman Proper Subject Confronting

That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.

Anthony Holden

Beginning Book End Living Write

A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

Norman MacCaig

Start Friends Ten Years Lost Dying

I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.

Richard Norton Smith

Money Miami Old Republican Floor

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard Paul Evans

Spiritual Healing I Was Raised Raised

In 1963, the U.N. Security Council declared a voluntary arms embargo on South Africa. That was extended to a mandatory embargo in 1977. And that was followed by economic sanctions and other measures - sometimes officials, countries, cities, towns - some organized by popular movements.

Noam Chomsky

Security Sometimes Africa Organized

Wealth and compassion are opposites.

Munshi Premchand

Compassion Wealth Opposites

I am not very responsible economically. I have a history working on films for years and years, and by the time I was starting the next film, I was starting from zero again.

James Spader

History Time I Am Responsible Years