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“There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.”
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“I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'”
Source : The Reader's Digest, Vol. 116, (p. 43), 1980.
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“I have made a sculpture … you will never be finished with it – when you pass around it or see it against the sky… something new goes on all the time… together with the sun, the light and the clouds, it makes a living thing.”
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“The main thing is not to be dead.”
Source : Robert Motherwell (1999). “The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell”
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“You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.”
Source : Song: Wait Til You See My Smile, Album: The Element of Freedom, 2009
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“Of course I am political. You 'ave to be don't you? Every day it is about your future, your right to that future. 'Ow can people ignore this? We 'ave to leave a good world for our children, n'est-ce pas?”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable.”
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“It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.”