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"The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with."
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"Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind."
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"So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level."
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"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd."
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"I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy."
Clarity
"Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent."
Living
"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time."
Time
"We simply have not kept in touch with poetry."
Poetry
"Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read."
People
"On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place."
Fact
"Obviously one of the things that poets from Northern Ireland and beyond - had to try to make sense of was what was happening on a day-to-day political level."
Poetry
"I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme."
Television
"I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door."
Being
"I do a lot of readings."
Reading
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