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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
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"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul."
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"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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"I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now."
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"People can put their best poems straight onto the web."
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"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."
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"If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision."
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"You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals."
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"Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together."
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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either."
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"Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision."
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"Quick decisions are unsafe decisions."
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"They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned."
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"One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice."
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"It is only in our decisions that we are important."
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"The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction."
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"This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue."
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"Jerry Rice made the decision and we honestly tried to accommodate him the best way we can."
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"I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants."
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