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There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music. Edward Hirsch
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Salman Rushdie
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When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. Robert M. Pirsig
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The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. Roland Barthes
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I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on. Robin McKinley
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I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? Rebecca Solnit
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I now want to be a photographer of my time, and our common culture. Sam Abell
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Change is no threat to culture. Wade Davis
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The end of culture is right living W. Somerset Maugham
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Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland
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Far better, and more cheerfully, I could dispense with some part of the downright necessaries of life, than with certain circumstances of elegance and propriety in the daily habits of using them. Thomas de Quincey
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Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered. Giorgio Armani
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On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me. Feist
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I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. Pierce Brosnan
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I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. Kate Bush
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I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises. Dean Rusk
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I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house. Timothy Garton Ash
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I didn't want to throw like an actress. Dennis Quaid
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I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that. Claire Bloom
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ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still got on the planes. If the British national ID card can't be faked, it will be the first on the planet. Bruce Schneier
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I'd be hopeless at directing. I'm not the type. You've got to really know what you're doing and be quite controlling. It's a very lonely job. Julie Walters
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face. Raza Jaffrey
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The British are so funny. Rose Byrne