James Fenton Quotes

I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMeWritingFeelYouBad

You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.

Jimmy Breslin

LifeBetterPictureYouPoliticians

Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

Jimmy Johnson

RoadDownTroubleThreeWillTwo

I've never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous.

Jennifer Aniston

FamousBecomeNeverOutSuccessful

I want to be remembered as a great footballer and a great player. When our football days are over, that's all we are - people.

Andres Iniesta

GreatFootballPeopleWantOverOur

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.

Melanie Griffith

WorkLoveMeBetter PersonBetter

You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge.

Anna Faris

WorkWomenGreatChallengeMeYou

I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how we choose our partner, and how we behave when we are with them. And that is the part that interests me. How that part of the personality is forged doesn't just interest me, it fascinates me.

Angeles Mastretta

PersonalityMeBelievePartnerHuman

As computers have become more powerful, computer graphics have advanced to the point where it's possible to create photo-realistic images. The bottleneck wasn't, 'How do we make pixels prettier?' It was, 'How do we engage with them more?'

Jefferson Han

ComputersPowerfulCreatePossible

No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.

Andy Samberg

InternetGrowingMatterPrettyStill

President Eyring is a wise, learned, and spiritual man.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

ManSpiritualWisePresidentLearned

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.

Davy Jones

PerformanceFirstStageEver

There's a reason why Hasselhoff was in a suit for twelve years, and there's a reason why Donald still has his hair that way. I'm tellin' ya. They're both sexy.

Brande Roderick

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