V. S. Naipaul Quotes
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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Watch how you communicate with a woman. Because you're always communicating, even when you're not talking - with your body language, your facial expressions, your eyes.
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
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One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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I will never forget my beautiful days with you in Shanklin, they are certainly the most pleasant ones of my life. Look, I have tears in my eyes just to think about it. I am furious to be here, it is the end of happiness for a whole year.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.
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Pastoral ministry is a sacrificial call with unique challenges. We are called to take the Gospel to those with hard hearts and blind eyes.
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I admire a lot of people, but in terms of sport I've always loved the mentality of Tiger Woods on a golf course. I always love his eyes when he's setting himself and focusing on his decision; he has a really strong, focused face and believes that he can make the shot.
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When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
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Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.
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Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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Consenting to suffer does not annul the suffering.
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The message of 'Zomb-B' is that you have to listen to your own heart and head and question everything. Question stereotypes and the way the world seems or is being presented. Some of the people we should be most concerned about, dangerous right-wing bigots, sound convincing and reasonable.
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I love Dave Eggers. I hate Dave Eggers. If I could become any other living writer, I would answer faster than anyone else in the room, 'Dave Eggers.'
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To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!
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I could scarcely bear to look at her eyes. They promised such intimacies.
