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Myself and The Beatles thought surely there was a way through our fame and success to bring something to our generation to help chill the future out.
Donovan
Success
Future
Myself
Beatles
Generation
Chill
Thought
Our
Our Generation
Way
Out
Something
Through
Surely
Fame
Help
Bring
The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.
Donovan
Life
Path
Isolation
Own
Other
Solo
Only
Both
Mystic
Lead
Idea
His
Austerity
Very
Yoga
Same
Place
Chose
Away
Early
Meditating
My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.
Donovan
Music
Too
Rules
Broke
Generations
Because
Break
Again
Younger
Younger Generations
Now
Players
I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.
Donovan
You
Wait
Long
Older
Enough
Learned
Just
Grow
If you have a loved one, you can survive anything.
Donovan
You
Survive
Anything
Loved
Loved One
Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.
Donovan
Entity
Spiritually
Buddhism
Close
Get
Describing
Floating
I wasn't trying to sound like anybody else. Basically, I was just experimenting all over the place.
Donovan
Else
Over
Like
Sound
Trying
Just
Anybody
Anybody Else
Experimenting
Place
Basically
Poets have a sense of place. My place was London, and I sang about it.
Donovan
Sense
London
About
Poets
Place
Sang
I never considered myself an entertainer. I always felt I had to be connected to something meaningful, or it wasn't worth doing.
Donovan
Myself
Worth
Considered
Entertainer
Something
Never
Had
Felt
Always
Doing
Meaningful
Connected
It's really much more than the plastic of album covers and record sales and dollars and cents. Music is just everybody's mother. Music is the power of you.
Donovan
Music
You
Mother
Power
Everybody
Record
Record Sales
More
Dollars
Covers
Sales
Than
Just
Cents
Much
Really
Plastic
Album
After I convinced them that I was a harmless novelist, I actually got them to give me a tour of the harem - which is usually off limits for tourists.
Dorothy Dunnett
Me
Harmless
Give
Give Me
Tour
Tourists
Got
Limits
Off
After
Which
Them
Convinced
Novelist
Actually
Harem
You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.
Dorothy Dunnett
Life
You
Game
Design
Analogue
Overall
Know
Partly
Because
Chess
Title
Theme
Themselves
Each
My mother and father met while playing chess, so I've always had a fondness for the game. If it weren't for chess, I might not be here.
Dorothy Dunnett
Game
Mother
Father
Mother And Father
Met
Fondness
Had
Always
Were
Chess
While
Might
Here
Playing
I've always thought my poems told stories.
Douglas Dunn
Thought
Poems
Always
Stories
Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.
Douglas Dunn
Reading
Poem
Aloud
Audience
Precise
Much
I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.
Douglas Dunn
Liked
Knowing
Without
Always
Quite
Why
In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.
Dougray Scott
Myself
Character
Me
Try
Achieve
Skin
Immerse
Possible
Terms
Jumping
Role
Closer
Want
Them
Much
Required
Bring
People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch.
Dougray Scott
Great
People
See
Exciting
Great Story
Because
Go
Story
Film
Watch
My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished.
Dougray Scott
Focus
Finished
Never
Accepted
Going
Film
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.
Dougray Scott
Love
Wonderful
Thomas
Doing
Mick Jagger
Jagger
Dylan
Dylan Thomas
Again
Script
Producing
Map
Film
It quite often happens that they attach a name to a project and it doesn't get all the financing it needs.
Dougray Scott
Needs
Project
Financing
Attach
Name
Get
Quite
Often
Happens
It's nice to be asked to do good projects.
Dougray Scott
Good
Nice
Projects
Good Projects
Asked
It's difficult to get films made, especially films about poets.
Dougray Scott
Made
Difficult
Films
About
Poets
Get
I got involved in script development from the beginning. It was nice to see how a film gets made right from the beginning. It was quite hands-on for me.
Dougray Scott
Me
Made
Beginning
Nice
See
Development
Involved
Got
How
Hands-On
Gets
Quite
Script
Film
Right
Fairfax was incredibly important to the shaping of the country.
Dougray Scott
Country
Important
Incredibly
Shaping
You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.
Dougray Scott
You
Made
Would
See
Rather
Like
Documentary
Make
Dry
Making
Go
Historians
Going
Movie
Paint
Film
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