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Thomas Hood Quotes

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: May 23, 1799 - May 3, 1845

Topics

Travel Minds Others Improve Going

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Family Alone Writing Society Friends

I am always looking for material - whether for my notebooks or for Twitter or Instagram - which means I'm looking for meaning.

I Am Looking Meaning Always Means

I always have to be me.

I really love rap music. I grew up in the '80s and '90s with Public Enemy, N.W.A., LL Cool J - I'm a hip-hop encyclopedia. But I got kind of frustrated with the chauvinistic side of rap music, the one that makes it hard to write songs about love and relationships.

Mayer Hawthorne

Love Music Cool Enemy Relationships

For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.

Me Events Watching Open Playing CNN

I currently live independently without any funded support. I'm educated, and I'm employed. I enjoy paying my taxes and contributing to the economic life of Australia.

Life Live Support Enjoy Australia

Dogs have boundless enthusiasm but no sense of shame. I should have a dog as a life coach.

Life Dog Enthusiasm Shame No Sense

There is no 'stop' - there's always 'go' on both sides: always keep writing, always keep recording. I don't find them to be segmented processes.

Writing Find Stop Go Sides Always

Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.

Girl First Hippie Be The First Guess

We have privilege in our hands as storytellers. We need to tell stories that reflect our world.

World Hands Privilege Need Tell Our

I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it. I like getting out of my head, and one great way to do that is to sweat your face off. And to know that, if you're thinking of anything else, you're not working intensely enough.

Work Great Job Face Thinking Enjoy

There can be no intelligent control of the lead danger in industry unless it is based on the principle of keeping the air clear from dust and fumes.

Control Intelligent Air Lead Dust

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