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Alice Oswald Quotes

Stripped of its plot, the 'Iliad' is a scattering of names and biographies of ordinary soldiers: men who trip over their shields, lose their courage or miss their wives. In addition to these, there is a cast of anonymous people: the farmers, walkers, mothers, neighbours who inhabit its similes.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: 1966

Topics

Courage Men People Lose Farmers

We will never sell or have an IPO. What that does is suddenly flushes you with cash. It makes you now work for a group of stockholders, who, again, put pressure and temptations on your true-blueness.

Work Pressure You Now Group Never

If you just want to be a star, go away.

You Go Want Star Just Go Away

I don't like when an Asian-American actor says, 'I'm entering this business to change Hollywood.' It feels like the wrong reason - I would prefer they entered the business for artistic reasons, because they need to do it.

Change Business Wrong Hollywood Need

In painting feathers, you want to create the look of feathers, but if you try to paint all the feathers, you have nothing but disaster.

Painting You Look Create Feathers

I grew up learning to do more with less.

Ann Kirkpatrick

Learning More Up Less Grew

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Say Test British Controversy Because

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

Nature Relax I Can Places Two Piano

I forget I'm on a TV show sometimes.

Forget Sometimes Show TV Show TV

The challenge is moving fast and staying great. You have to keep the bar high. There's only one way you can evolve the brand and perception, which is to deliver. You just gotta lay it down.

Great Challenge Moving Perception

I like to call the Republicans the Christian Brotherhood of the U.S. so that my fellow Americans recognise the line that connects their mix of religion and politics with their Muslim equivalent in Egypt.

Politics Religion Brotherhood Egypt

I have disagreements with some and more agreements with others. But that doesn't mean I cannot listen to those I disagree with.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Others Listen More Mean Disagree

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Art Poetry Some Very Least Possess

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