Niall Williams Quotes
Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
Niall Williams
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
Octavia Spencer
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
Laura Harrier
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
Laura Dern
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
F. Sionil Jose
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I have matured a lot.
Usain Bolt
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Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
Kate Brown
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God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.
Pat Robertson
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman
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Preserving the sweetness of proportion and expressing itself beyond expression.
Ben Jonson
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I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.
Daniel Woodrell
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I get all dressed up with that Marianne Faithfull face, and the next thing I know, I'm blurting out things that I shouldn't, trying to get attention when, really, I've got everybody's attention already.
Marianne Faithfull
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Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly
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In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.
Luis Fortuno
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Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to her sorrow, possessed it. Had both been blessed - or cursed - with it, there would have been much keener competition for the apple.
Stella Benson
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Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
Niall Williams