Bryce Dessner Quotes

I can't just play in a rock band. The National is a great, exciting band to play in. We improvise a lot onstage, and it's very intense, but after a while, I crave other kinds of experiences.

Bryce Dessner

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Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

John Drinkwater

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While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

Andrew Motion

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I'm an odd mixture. I'm a sort of Geordie punk who started in classical theatre. It means nobody ever knows quite where to put me, but I like that.

Andrea Riseborough

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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

John Wayne

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When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Sofia Vergara

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I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

Robert Wagner

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I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

Michaela Coel

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Those of us who thought Jorge Luis Borges was a pioneer of magical realism were mistaken; he was a pioneer of science fiction.

Mohsin Hamid

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When you see a silent movie, you understand everything that's going on from the images because the images are so strong.

Monica Bellucci

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I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

Judi Dench

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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.

Jay Leno

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I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

Josh Hartnett

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