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Al Alvarez Quotes

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: August 5, 1929

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You Mean Being Get Like Writer

I loved 'The Artist.' I thought it was fantastic.

Thought Loved Artist Fantastic

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

Food People Kitchen Back Fast Trend

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

Music Practice Stand Over Room

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

Day Little Girls Generation Every Day

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Others Pity Only Ourselves Those

Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.

Home Job Ignore You Be Prepared Get

Part of why I started a band was due to feelings of shyness and social ineptitude. I saw it as some way of being able to interact with people from a safe distance.

People Feelings Distance Why Way

When I go to China, people call me 'Uncle Mo' because they refer me as Yao Ming's uncle. I'm pleased to be his uncle as long as he listens to me!

Dikembe Mutombo

People Me Long Uncle Go China

There is a force of exultation, a celebration of luck, when a writer finds himself a witness to the early morning of a culture that is defining itself, branch by branch, leaf by leaf, in that self-defining dawn, which is why, especially at the edge of the sea, it is good to make a ritual of the sunrise.

Good Morning Sea Culture Sunrise

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

Little Nevertheless Thing Wellbeing

There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.

Think Long Willingness Absolutely

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

Live Mind Problems Someone Attention

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