- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Landscape Quotes
Terrain that keeps shifting underfoot.
These quotes treat landscape both literally, as gardening compared to painting, and figuratively, as an industry or field reshaped by new forces. Anyone tracking change over time may also enjoy the Back collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Different Approach
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Little Friend is a long book. It's also completely different from my first novel: different landscape, different characters, different use of language and diction, different approach to story.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Quality of life is not only about what you find in the shops; it's about the landscape.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peoria is such a seemingly quintessential American city, and I had always wanted to draw on that in either my fiction or in nonfiction. The Midwest is also a landscape that I have always been infatuated with, perhaps because it's the first one I can truly remember.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
My delight in things is definitely Caribbean. It has to do with landscape and food. The fact that my language may have a metrical direction is because that's the shape of the language. I didn't make that shape.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's why Tennessee Williams was a great writer. Poetically, dramatically, it was fantastic stuff. And with the landscape, the losers in life populating it. His short stories have got rhythm, something musical about them.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Europeans governments have massively changed the landscape in Europe. There is no doubt about it. They have put together the European Financial Stability Fund. They have discussed and approved the European Stability Mechanism.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the beginning of my acting career, I worked for two seasons at the RSC and spent a lot of time in the Cotswolds exploring Shakespeare's countryside. It's my kind of English landscape, with its tiny villages and one-room thatched pubs.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The landscape of the Net has changed; that cyberfrontier of the past has become a teeming city of people, transactions, and businesses.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020