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Thom Gunn Quotes

While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I would think that's true about many of us.

Thom Gunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: british
Birth: August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004

Topics

Work Curious Curiosity Think True

We don't need secrecy.

Jimmy Wales

Need Secrecy

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

Jodie Comer

Talent Think You Acting Teach

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

John C. Maxwell

Learning Growth Walk Limits Down

I have a nostalgia for the years I was growing up and experiencing new things for the first time - so the late '80s and early '90s are always fascinating to me. Those were the times that I was being informed about a lot of my tastes, and so the memories are fused with a lot of emotion.

Jeremy Scott

Memories Time New Things Growing Up

I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.

Joel Edgerton

People Him Four Autographs Sam Any

There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

Famous Powerful Celebrity Quite

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

Mickey Drexler

People Consistency Restaurant You

I hoped that I could learn how to combine an education with acting. But I was unhappy with the direction I chose, so I decided to take on a six-month tour for a musical theater performance, thinking that I'd go back to university in a year. That became two years, then three years, until I really realized I am already doing what I love doing.

Michiel Huisman

Education Love I Am Performance Year

Health care historically has been a very siloed field that's organized around medical specialties - urology, cardiac surgery, and so forth - and around the supply of these specialty services. The patient is the ping-pong ball that moves from service to service.

Michael Porter

Health Service Medical Care Patient

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Age Truth Simple Architecture Space

I don't know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Lorrie Fair

Words Motivation Know Describe

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.

Jonathan Frid

Friend Truth Me Person Know Lying