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Alexander Pope Quotes

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: May 21, 1688 - May 30, 1744

Topics

Nature Man Happy Care Wish Breathe

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Journey Children Reach America Who

You can't deduce the personality of the potter from the pots. It's a thingy you've made and offered to somebody else for their use, and, believe me, a novel is like that. It's a made thing and ought not to contain a direct self-expression of the writer.

Jill Paton Walsh

Personality Me Believe You Made

It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.

New York Kiss Glitter Play New Days

You have always had individual directors who begin in the advertising or commercial world, but they are probably exceptions rather than the traditional pattern.

Advertising World You Always Begin

It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer.

Steven Soderbergh

People Easy You Understand Hard

If I don't talk about my religion, if I say I'm not discussing it or different humanitarian things I'm working on, they're like, 'He's avoiding it.' If I do talk about it, it becomes, 'Oh, he's proselytizing.'

Religion Say Talk Things Working He

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

Funny Good Time Manners Possible

When I was younger, I didn't know television presenting was a thing, which is how I totally got my foot in the door. But I didn't really know that was a job. I never really had a TV or watched TV, and I really just wanted to be an actor.

Job Door Television Know Actor Foot

Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.

Snow Light Dance Chance Ice New

We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.

Love Today Think Thought Comedy New

I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Time Short Back Difficult Only Like

I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.

Job People I Can Lens Know Talk

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