Adrian Mitchell Quotes

Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry.

Adrian Mitchell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: October 24, 1932 - December 20, 2008

Topics

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Since the global financial crisis and recession of 2007-2009, criticism of the economics profession has intensified. The failure of all but a few professional economists to forecast the episode - the aftereffects of which still linger - has led many to question whether the economics profession contributes anything significant to society.

Robert J. Shiller

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I think anytime you can do something you haven't seen or done in a film before, it's always a great day as an actor.

Matt Dillon

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The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

Steven Sinofsky

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I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

Tom Cotton

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I've done little things, including Botox, but it didn't feel right for me.

Mary Steenburgen

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I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Joss Whedon

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People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Josh Fox

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Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Jose Bergamin

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As I travel the country for away games, I meet kids fighting cancer in almost every city. They visit the ballpark, and I invite them onto the field so we can chat and then watch the game.

Jon Lester

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We define organic order as the kind of order that is achieved when there is a perfect balance between the needs of the parts, and the needs of the whole.

Christopher Alexander

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In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Armstrong Williams

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A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Pope Francis

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