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David Whyte Quotes

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: 1955

Topics

Poetry Fierce Whole Practicality

I like to create a community where people want to come and have a good time and do their best work.

Work Good Community Time Best Want

I have an issue with the commercial aspect of moviemaking: I don't see why a movie can't make a lot of money and also be good.

Good Money Why See Commercial Movie

It was a simple question any employee should ask: 'Oh and by the way, how do I get my health insurance to be seamless?'

Andrew P. Harris

Health Simple Insurance Way Employee

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Great World Rest Grow Wealth Kid

Every job I've done so far, every character has been completely different, and that's really important to me because I don't want to fall into a stereotypical box. Of course, every actor has their box, and you have to respect and play for it, but I do love challenging myself.

Aneurin Barnard

Love Character Respect Myself Job

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Michael Azerrad

Music Wisdom People Advertising Face

Oh, I'm a pretty bad poet. This has been corroborated by others.

Bad Others Pretty Poet Been Oh

I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.

Great Writing Small Story Learn You

Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and unhealthy - that it's hard to believe things were once exactly the opposite. The West Indies were colonized in a world where sugar was seen as a scarce, luxurious, and profoundly health-giving substance.

Today World Believe Diet Sugar Hard

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Myself Competition Losing

I have no doubt that the digital immersion of our children will provide a rich life of entertainment and information and knowledge. My concern is that they will not learn, with their passive immersion, the joy and the effort of the third life, of thinking one's own thoughts and going beyond what is given.

Life Knowledge Children Joy Effort

Most practising scientists focus on 'bite-sized' problems that are timely and tractable. The occupational risk is then to lose sight of the big picture.

Focus Problems Picture Lose Sight

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