#lands

I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return. ↗

— Billy Bragg

#falklands #first #got #gulf #gulf war

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America! ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#audience #chapter #corpse #experience #exquisite

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western. ↗

— Lawrence Kasdan

#empty #important #kind #landscape #only

In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#allow #budget #did #duty #falklands

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#fall #fear #freed #hath #himself

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands. ↗

— Tom Felton

#islands #nice #pop #pop star #star

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. ↗

— Gina Gershon

#excited #extravagant #faces #get #gift

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#best way #democratic #democratic system #demonstrate #emulation

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#every time #hangover #hate #hatred #i

The other exception where we did not at all restore the place to its original condition is the Surrounded Islands. Before we installed our fabric, we had our workers remove 42 tons of garbage off the beaches of those islands. We never brought the garbage back. ↗

— Christo

#beaches #before #brought #condition #did