Donna Tartt Quotes
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.Donna Tartt
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
Dan Maffei -
I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
Rachel Nichols -
Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
Samuel Johnson -
Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
Sam Harris -
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova -
The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
O. J. Simpson
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
Yolanda Adams -
In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.
Walther Bothe -
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
Naima Adedapo -
I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
Tatyana Tolstaya -
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
Larry David -
I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
Warren Spector
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
J. G. Ballard -
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
Ovid -
When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
Laura Ricketts -
My literary success meant nothing to me.
Taylor Caldwell -
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Edmond de Goncourt -
You can't hire someone to practice for you.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I lack only $1 billion to make the world a better world.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book.
John le Carre -
Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale -
My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.
Brigitte Bardot -
It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.
Democritus -
You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.
Donna Tartt