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Tony Harrison Quotes

I've realised darkness and light are inter-dependent, just as death is an enhancer of life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Light Darkness Death Just

Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

Beautiful Art Religion Literature

I don't mind getting older. I'm enjoying not having that raging ambition I've had all my life.

Life Getting Older Mind Ambition Had

I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.

Love Rest Reality Confused Someone

Women are so - maybe this is just a male perspective, but for my money, they're so connected to life in a way that men aren't. They're able to give birth, have children, and it's literally a part of them. They perhaps have a stronger capacity for caring than males.

Life Women Children Perspective Men

When I was superintendent of Denver Public Schools, I saw the potential of some of our best and brightest students cut short, punished for the actions of others - kids who had grown up and done well in our school system, and kids who know no other home but America. This is unacceptable.

Home Best School Potential Short

The one thing about me is that I keep my personal life away from my sporting life. And, when I am training for a fight, that is my focus.

Life Focus Training Fight I Am Me

I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged.

Stephen Sondheim

Want Write Score Show Whole Cast

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

People Think You Try Always Give

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children.

God Children Responsibility Parents

The funny thing when you are with a man that has lots of fans - particularly female fans - it gets sensitive!

Funny Man You Fans Sensitive Female

I think the one thing I can say is not to play through concussions. I think that's unwise.

Think I Can Play Say Through Thing

I'm a trumpet player, so I always carry a pocket trumpet in case there's an opportunity to jam with the locals. I was in Guadeloupe last year filming 'Death in Paradise,' and I played all over the island and had the best time.

Opportunity Time Best Death Year

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