Billy Collins I am a nonparticipant of social media. I’m not much attracted to anything that involves the willing forfeiture of privacy and the foregrounding of insignificance. – Billy Collins Attracted Quotes Foregrounding Quotes Forfeiture Quotes Insignificance Quotes Involves Quotes Media Quotes Nonparticipant Quotes Privacy Quotes Social Quotes When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn’t worth reading. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But the real question is, ‘What happens to the reader once he or she gets inside the poem?’ That’s the real question for me, is getting the reader into the poem and then taking the reader somewhere, because I think of poetry as a kind of form of travel writing.
Miranda Hart I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade. – Miranda Hart
Charley Boorman You need to think Gucci when you are camping – make things as luxurious as you can. – Charley Boorman
Ann Brashares I look back on my 20s. It’s supposed to be the prime of your life, the most vital, the most beautiful. But you’re making your critical decisions and sometimes your most critical mistakes. – Ann Brashares
Maria Cornejo My mother had her dresses made. In those days in Chile, the early ’70s, people had dressmakers make their things. With the leftovers, my sister and I always had a matching outfit. She had an outfit, we had the mini version. That was the very late ’60s, early ’70s way to dress your kids. – Maria Cornejo
Javier Bardem The bad news is that only the bad people reach the news because they are noisier. – Javier Bardem
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