Katherine Anne Porter Quotes
I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
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I've directed independent film.
Vin Diesel
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
I. M. Pei
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Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.
Malcolm Turnbull
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
Lascelles Abercrombie
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If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.
Victor Koo
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One of the few benefits of being a journalist is that you're not in the Army.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
Rami Malek
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
Fran Kranz
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
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Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.
Naftali Bennett
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
Sam Heughan
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
Padgett Powell
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I'm not really a food connoisseur.
Aasif Mandvi
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When you are hoping for a call or want something different, I think you lose your edge.
Dan Quinn
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I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
Pat Nixon
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Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ's epistles to the seven churches, except to those who 'overcome.' Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.
J. C. Ryle
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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.
Pablo Picasso
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A victim of God may,Through learning adaption,Become a partner of God,A victim of God may,Through forethought and planning,Become a shaper of God.Or a victim of God may,Through shortsightedness and fear,Remain God’s victim,God’s plaything,God’s prey.
Octavia E. Butler
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I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
Nellie Bly
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Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
Lao Tzu
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I'm not leaving because we're in a bad situation. I'm leaving even sadder. It's not easy to leave the most prestigious club in the world.
Arrigo Sacchi
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I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
Katherine Anne Porter