British Actor Quotes
826 British Actor quotes:
"And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry."
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"My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence."
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"It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater."
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"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive."
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"Poetry is composing for the breath."
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"The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product."
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"There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they're well regarded."
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"Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide."
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"I think everything I do is my early work. I can't wait to get on to the later stuff."
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"I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever."
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"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
British Actor Quotes
Negotiation Quotes
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"I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act."
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"I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate."
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"Frost is the most sophisticated of poets."
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"Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding."
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"The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it."
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"If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget."
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"No one has developed active tuberculosis."
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"The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story."
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"Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel."
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