Davinia Taylor Quotes
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.
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I'm actually an equestrian, and I showed in the American Paint Horse Association and competed for top 20 in the nation.
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To those who would divide us or drive us to the extremes of either political party, I remind you that Maryland has been called 'a state of middle temperament.' Our politics need that middle temperament as well.
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My younger sister had kids before I did, and managed to earn a master's degree while raising them as a single parent. Now she's a brilliant second-grade teacher. I'm in awe of her ability to juggle everything and still be a great mother.
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I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
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I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.
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Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
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It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.
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Voluntary self-directed religion was more dangerous to the Church than any number of infidels.
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This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
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But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength, both in numbers and wealth; … unless, by a neglect of military discipline, we should lose all martial spirit …; for there is much truth in the Italian saying, Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.
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The beloved is the ultimate fetish.
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As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority.
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You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth.
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Novels are a safe way to talk about things.
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The promise to the Church is a promise of persecution, if faithful in this world, but a promise of a great inheritance and reward hereafter.
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I feel like I've put my demons behind me.
