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Francis Spufford Quotes

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Francis Spufford

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: 1964

Topics

Imagination Self-Awareness More Same

I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.

Feel Questions Want Others Ask Like

I went into the Navy because I love the ocean, and I am still privileged to have a place that I can go to that's by the water.

Love Water Ocean I Am I Can Place

You have to maintain your principles but have a broader appeal.

You Principles Your Maintain Appeal

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

Environmental Problems Serious Know

I don't think I'm a revolutionary, and I'd certainly be an unlikely one.

Think Revolutionary Unlikely

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

You Know Mean See Scared Just

Whether weapons exist in Iraq, Saddam Hussein or post-Saddam Hussein, it is a serious enough issue that require that we continue to go and make sure that Iraq does not have weapons.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Enough Go Serious Exist Sure Make

The M.F.A. is a degree in servitude. It is a way to keep writing safe - to keep reading safe from writing.

Writing Reading Way Safe Degree

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Learning Wisdom Awake Wide Sleeps

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Death Me Want Real Out Something

Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.

Live Past People Me I Can New

Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.

Life Fight Tears Ready Way Possible

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