Alice Oswald Quotes

To be a poet is as serious, long-term and natural as the effort to be the best human you can be. To express something well is not a question of having a top-class education and understanding poetic forms: rather, it's a question of paying attention.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1966

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When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Ann Leckie

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I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Amy Irving

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I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

Rita Ora

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To make personal movies that you are the author of, is quite a difficult thing. It takes a lot of stamina.

Roman Coppola

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I definitely understand not entirely fitting in. I think everyone has their own version of feeling out of place and I think one of the great things we have the ability to do is to know it's all right. It's OK to have that awkward phase.

Rumer Willis

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I think sometimes when trades are made the beginning of the season on paper, they look great. It just takes time. Sometimes the process by the media or outside influences or sources want it to be now. Sometimes it doesn't work that way.

Jason Kidd

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I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

Courtney Barnett

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It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.

Alice Oswald

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Physical studies of DNA had, of course, been under way for some years before analysis of virus particles began.

Alfred Hershey

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When you forget everything, there only remains yourself - and that is not enough.

Pierre Bonnard

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I'm sure that, on some level of the major-label and old-establishment industry, there are execs and agents who think homosexuality is a liability.

Syd

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'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Susanna Moore

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