David Whyte Quotes

The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.

David Whyte

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: 1955

Topics

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This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

Amanullah Khan

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I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

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I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

Steve Kazee

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In life you need to take a risk.

Stefano Gabbana

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Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

Steven Biko

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I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.

Claire Tomalin

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A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.

Brian Selznick

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My grandfather was a polygamous man, and he had two wives, and between him and his two wives, we are about 200 or so in our family.

Petina Gappah

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You need to keep on doing things you have never done before in your career. You have to have a go.

Penelope Wilton

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And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job.

Sela Ward

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The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

Richard Morris

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I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

Marina Abramovic

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