Tony Harrison Quotes

I often find myself quoting from Victor Hugo after one of my theatrical ventures. 'Now that my play is a failure,' he once said, 'I find I love it all the more.' I first quoted that after 'Square Rounds' at the Olivier in 1992.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Jimi Hendrix

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Elective office and public service are obviously something that have long ties with my family, and something I'm definitely interested in.

Joe Kennedy III

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Yoga is how I got sober.

Johnny Colt

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Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

Ambrose Bierce

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I and many other senators, Republican and Democrat, have expressed our sincere and long-held intent that Congress must approve any nuclear deal with Iran for months.

Tom Cotton

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I try my best to be extremely disciplined about my diet.

Mika Brzezinski

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Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I'd just do theater on the side.

Michael Lomenda

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With physical prep work, you know if you go to the gym, you will get size. There's no chance it won't happen. The emotional prep work is a variable. You could step onto the set one day and have a disconnect with your thoughts and feelings and have a rough day acting because you can't quite tap into what you need.

Chris Evans

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I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.

Brad D. Smith

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I don't think Obama is trying to take our guns, and I don't think we have to fight the government to keep them.

Armie Hammer

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It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

William Thomas

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Very often, people talk about mothers, and they think that mother has to lose her sexuality. Mother has to be plain. Mothers cannot be exciting. Mother should not be up on what's going on; she shouldn't know the jargon of the day. And I just find that so old-fashioned!

Sheryl Lee Ralph

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