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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time. Al Alvarez
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Because I've always been a fairly nervous person. David Sedaris
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I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous I know I'm going to have a good show. Beyonce Knowles
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I get nervous when I don't get nervous.
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Before every performance I feel nervous. Diego Boneta
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I haven't found a comfortable place onstage. I'm sure it doesn't have to be comfortable, but I'm very nervous, so I don't enjoy myself. Charlotte Gainsbourg
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When I was on the mound, I was pretty relaxed. I was focused. I don't know what it is, but I'm more nervous before I pitch and then after I come out of the game. When I'm in there, I don't feel any of that. Shawn Chacon
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I'm nervous when taking part in any movie. Jamie Campbell Bower
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Some artists are nervous - most of them are, to tell you the truth, and they have different ways of exhibiting that. Some of them are boisterous, some are really quiet. Daryl Hall
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Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
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Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
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Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
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Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
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The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
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Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
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Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
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There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.
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I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics. David Miliband
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I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene. Louis Leakey
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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
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At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.
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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
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It's a question of why they come for your advice. Whatever I tell you, it doesn't matter, it is completely irrelevant in a way. I know so many actors who were discouraged and put that aside. You will get half-baked opinions. Michael York
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The people who will be his judge is not God, it will be the families of the bereaved British soldiers and it will be the families of the bereaved innocent Iraqis who have all been slaughtered in this totally unnecessary conflict.
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The people who go into that house are a cross section of British culture. They're not freaks. Davina McCall
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We are pleased to be able to enter into a contract that will secure the maximum return on the British taxpayers' investment and cement the continued leadership of Westinghouse in the nuclear energy field through the stewardship of the Toshiba Corporation.