Quentin Bryce Quotes

The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

Quentin Bryce

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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

John Crowe Ransom

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I had struggles throughout my career. I had some tough times.

Ana Ivanovic

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If you want to be negative about the whole thing you can say all guitar bands after the Beatles were just a waste of time because the Beatles were the best. I think it's far better to give new records a try.

Stephen Malkmus

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The United States created the best popular songs that were ever written, and from the 1920s to the 1940s, it was a renaissance period. It stopped in 1950.

Tony Bennett

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I want my thoughts to be an incentive for the reader to give his or her own thoughts. After I wrote 'Proust and the Squid,' I received truly hundreds of letters - I'm still receiving them - and the letters that I wrote back helped me formulate my thinking around things I know are important to others.

Maryanne Wolf

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I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

Roselyn Sanchez

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Of course, New Brighton is very shabby, very rundown, but people still go there because it's the place where you take kids out on a Sunday.

Martin Parr

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I never would've thought in Homeland Security that you would see someone saying that we needed to have hearings on radicalization of Christianity because it's a purported threat to America as much as radicalization of Islam.

Mo Brooks

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It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Jonathan Swift

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I'm perplexed, though, by your application of the term 'negative' to my figural imagery.

Brian Ferneyhough

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Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Anthony Bourdain

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The fashion industry may persist to label me as 'plus-size,' but I like to think of it as 'my size.'

Ashley Graham

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