C. L. R. James Quotes
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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If you don't want to deal with them, fine. But don't hamper other people from dealing with them.
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After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.
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I came from a supportive home with a mommy and a daddy, and they had everything I wanted.
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When I'm not singing, I'm a lot of persons: I'm a producer. I'm a badminton player. I'm a writer. I'm a movie freak. I'm a documentary maker.
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Good vinegars come in all shapes, sizes, strengths, and viscosities and are probably my most often used seasoning agent in the kitchen after the other major acids we use in solid form: sugar and salt.
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Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
