V. S. Pritchett Quotes
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.V. S. Pritchett
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
Kacey Musgraves -
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
Rachel Kushner -
I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
Captain Beefheart -
The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley -
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck -
It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
Karl Rove
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
Kate Winslet -
Im not your biggest girly girl.
Maggie Siff -
A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
Randa Haines -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
Saint Basil -
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
Caitlyn Jenner -
I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
Kate Bosworth -
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
K. A. Applegate -
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
Kareena Kapoor Khan -
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
Jack Kerouac -
It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
Laura Marano
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From Day 1 I wasn't planning to run until I am very old.
Asafa Powell -
We all have appointments with the past.
W. G. Sebald -
I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
Naomie Harris -
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
Claire Denis -
The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.
V. S. Pritchett