V. S. Pritchett Quotes
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep and do shows.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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The biggest part of Loopt is about discovering the world around you, never replacing a social experience - only adding to it.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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People are always going to identify with what it's like living in society and have people judge you in certain ways, and how you can be strong enough to be your own person and all those good things.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I made a living out of singing Mexican music.
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Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
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I collect items like Elvis Presley clock radios and '50s memorabilia. It inspires a lot of my imagery. I like tasteful trash.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
