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Coventry Patmore Quotes

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Coventry Patmore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: July 23, 1823 - November 26, 1896

Topics

God You Desire Will More Wild

It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

Quality Compromise You Trouble Will

For America, Britain has never been more than a strategic player, and when it suits them to use us, then there's been a rapprochement. But if it doesn't suit them, you're kicked out the door. In 1860, America was like a big, spoilt teenager trying to get away from its parent.

Door Parent Suits America You Never

The Oscar is not a curse. The real curse is that once you have an Oscar they think you can do anything.

Think You Real Anything Curse Once

A fisherman, say, working on a beach doing his job, may be photographed by a tourist because it's photogenic to see him working, and the Caribbean is extremely photogenic, so poverty is photogenic, and a lot of people are photographed in their poverty, and sometimes it's kind of exploited.

Beach Job People Doing Poverty Kind

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Christopher Eccleston

Work Love Seriously Dead Democratic

I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

Bradley Wiggins

Me Separation More Always Just Like

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.

Woman Free Thought Early Kind She

Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Dead, Zeppelin, the Beatles - I paint to this music all of the time.

Music Time Dead Paint Beatles Who

The amount of time it took me to get a show like 'Shameless' was definitely worth it because of the people and the material. I can appreciate it because I know what it's like when I didn't have a show.

Shanola Hampton

Time People Me Appreciate Worth Get

You want to say as little as you can and get the most punch out of it, always with the knowledge that people are not in the theater to listen to your music so much as to respond to the movie. You're a part of that experience.

Music Knowledge Experience People

I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.

Time Lucky Events Beat Changing

You can be very successful but still struggling financially, and it looked like I'd have to take a year or two off and find whatever menial labouring work you can get as a middle-aged, unskilled bald man.

Richard Flanagan

Work Man Year You Find Bald

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