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Norman MacCaig Quotes

When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: November 14, 1910 - January 23, 1996

Topics

Poetry Thought You Ridiculous Teach

I guess I would like to play some more extroverts.

Play More Would Like Some Guess

There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

Melvin Van Peebles

Technology You Can Do It Mediocrity

Foolishness is rarely a matter of lack of intelligence or even lack of information.

Intelligence Information Matter Even

The jewellery I wear on stage in the opera house is not real, but the bling-bling I wear in concerts? Those are real!

House Real Stage Opera Wear Those

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

Jefferson Davis

Day War Night Blind Mad Years

In truth, my Anglophilia is fundamentally bookish: I yearn for one of those country house libraries, lined on three walls with mahogany bookshelves, their serried splendor interrupted only by enough space to display, above the fireplace, a pair of crossed swords or sculling oars and perhaps a portrait of some great English worthy.

Truth Great Walls Space Portrait

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Shirley Chisholm

Politics Woman Black Discrimination

No, I'm a very normal and orthodox person that goes out of their way to present eccentricity. It's not that I do that so much now but I've been doing it for so many years that it's become routine now.

Present Doing Routine Person Become

I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.

Road House My Own Own Used Stuff

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

People Create Become More Purge

Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.

Writing Measure Outside Him Movement

The key to the future in an aging society is not found in increasing just our life span; we need to increase our health span at the same time.

Life Future Health Time Aging Key

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