- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain functions that a writer has to do. In a time of crisis, it is great to have heroic poems, as it was in the Irish Revolution. It's great to have great songs, because people need something to sing when they are marching. That's OK, but it should be on the side. It's not the ultimate thing.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.'
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Caribbean is an immense ocean that just happens to have a few islands in it. The people have an immense respect for it, awe of it.
- Dazzling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking up magic was a distraction from my sexuality. There is that 1970s cliche of the gay man as hairdresser, interior decorator, fashionista... and all of those things are about arranging surfaces in a very dazzling way - and magic is all about how you arrange surfaces. I got very good at deflecting people from things I didn't want them to see.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people have very big personalities, I find myself feeling I have nothing to offer.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things I've done in the past always make me cringe a bit. When I think back to being a Christian. Proselytising to people, that makes me cringe.
- Responsibility
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are just passively accepting what you tell them, so if you are on TV there is that greater responsibility to be true.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a controlling thing on stage - you're directing the action, getting people to play their role. In real life, I take being kind and nice seriously, so the last thing I'd ever want to be is that weird, controlling, manipulative character.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're a comedian, it's a bit of a choice whether or not you want to be funny when you're not performing because it might feel disingenuous. In the same way, I don't show people magic tricks in social situations any more.
- Attention
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- Nov 07, 2020