Deborah Harkness Quotes
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.Deborah Harkness
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
Ted Nugent -
For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
I like walking in Golden Gate Park.
Yuan Yuan Tan -
I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
Ira Sachs -
I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
Aaron Douglas -
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
Bayard Taylor -
I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
Nancy Friday -
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
Barry Mann
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
Ma Jun -
They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
H. Rap Brown -
No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
Karl Lagerfeld -
I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
Kaskade -
I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.
Rakul Preet Singh
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I can live without bread, but I can't live without freedom.
Said Nursi -
All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.
Poppy Delevingne -
At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.
Alex Berenson -
I wonder if I could make an electric bass.
Leo Fender -
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
Deborah Harkness