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"I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems."
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"Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical."

"The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality."

"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia."

"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible."

"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing."

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"CGI is done after the film is done. It's through the computer. Most of the film is not computer-generated special effects. Most of it is that creature that is in the room with you."

"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."

"You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s."
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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."


"Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it."


"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."


"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."


"We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it."
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