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Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

I have written about some truly great writers - John Steinbeck, Robert Frost, and William Faulkner. Faulkner and Frost were the very peaks of American poetry and fiction in the 20th century.

There have always been great defenses of poetry, and I've tried to write mine, and I think all of my work and criticism is a defense of poetry to try and keep something alive in poetry.

I find great consolation in having a lot of poetry books around. I believe that writing poetry and reading it are deeply intertwined. I've always delighted in the company of the poets I've read.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

I asked a shrink: 'Everything is so great. Why am I still so angry?' He said, 'Anger doesn't go away.' I always thought it was kind of a good engine.

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

Dance music cannot compete with a really great rock n' roll song. There ain't no DJ that's gonna play something that can take 'Mr Brightside' or 'Don't Look Back In Anger.'

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.

When I got married, I hired a great choir - the St. James Choir, an all-black gospel choir - to sing at my wedding.

I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

My dad actually makes the best cookies. My mum is great baker, too, but doesn't share them - it's tantalising! Luckily for me though, my dad shares his!

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who find the process agonising but to me, writing has always been sheer joy.

I've been going to Bicester Village since I was young. My mum and dad really loved that place, and I always used to stock up on clothes. I love the fact that it supports great British designers.

People have told me, 'My dad passed on, but I have great memories of watching your shows with him.' It doesn't get any better than that.

My girls are great at making fun of Dad. They're never impressed with anything I do. I love that. I hope that never changes.

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.