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Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. -- Dougray Scott
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. -- Jack Prelutsky
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. -- Seamus Heaney
I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. -- Dougray Scott
There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas. -- Robert Adamson
It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that. -- Jeffrey Bernard
I had - along with my singing and dancing, I was very happy to be born in the hometown of Dylan Thomas. So the government was financing dramatic groups and amateur dramatics and stuff like that. -- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas. -- Matthew Rhys
Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed. -- Robin Wright
I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't until I read Dylan Thomas, when I was 14, that I became interested in language itself, and saw it as more than a transparent medium for a story. -- Jay McInerney
My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl. -- Dylan Lauren
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. -- Dylan Walsh
I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. -- Tom Hollander
Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower. -- Julia Cameron
Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' -- Avram Davidson
I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness. -- Tom Hollander
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. -- John Thorn
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery. -- Tom Hollander
The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results. -- Frederick Lenz
Some people say Dylan Thomas mischievous, he's a child, and other people say he's quite demonic. I don't think we should dictate about him, if that's your view of him, that's wonderful, but it's great to know that other people think differently. -- Keira Knightley
The closer you get to death, the more alive you feel. Dylan Thomas wrote, Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. My dad always taught me to live like that. Dad wrote a poem too. It goes, Dune buggies. Woohoo! -- Christopher Titus
By the time someone gave me some samples of standard screenplays I was already beyond that stuff, because I was not only a tinkerer in ways to do things, I'd started from Dylan Thomas. As a screen dramatist he was a very intense visualist, with great timing and fluency. -- William Monahan

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