James Fenton Quotes

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1949

Topics

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I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Andrew Breitbart

PeopleSorryYouPureMotivesWhose

Being number two sucks.

Andre Agassi

TwoBeingNumberSucks

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael J. Fox

ValuePossibilitiesEverythingSee

I loved my time in Congress, but people who spend all of their time planning to run for office have very few useful skills to deploy when they finally get there.

John Sununu

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No one can actually define love, but you attempt to, and the closest you can get is longing. And that itself has a melancholy to it. You can say dread, or doom - it's that feeling we all feel when we fall in love with someone: we have this horrible, fearful feeling that maybe we will never have that person in our life.

Robert Zemeckis

LifeLoveFeelSomeoneYouFall

In this day and age when we do so much business in foreign trade, we need the ability to identify trace an animal very quickly, identifying where it came from - where it has been, and where it is at today.

Mike Johanns

BusinessAgeTodayDayAnimalNeed

I see a lot of my children. They're around the house all the time on the farm, you know.

Michael Leunig

ChildrenTimeFarmYouHouseKnow

I think some of the best actors ever were little kids.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

BestThinkLittleKidsI ThinkSome

I had many ups and downs at Atletico, achieving the best and the worst.

Diego Godin

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I am a glutton for tranquility.

Wole Soyinka

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When I was 13, I told my dad I wanted to move to Florida to attend the IMG Academy. I wanted to be a golfer, and that's hard to do in New England where I could only practice half the year.

Peter Uihlein

PracticeYearNewHardFloridaHalf

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

Twyla Tharp

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