Donna Tartt Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
Patrick Kane -
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
Ed Koch -
It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
Beck -
I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
Ed Harris -
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.
Zadie Smith -
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
Dan Webster -
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Cal Thomas -
Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
Pat Brown -
I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
Rachel Bilson -
Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
Naeem Khan -
I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
Indra Nooyi
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
Victoria Principal -
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
Gary Burton -
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle -
We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
Adam Hamilton
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide -
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide -
Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
Orhan Pamuk -
It is inconceivable for our unconscious to imagine an actual ending of our own life here on Earth, and if this life of ours has to end, the ending is always attributed to a malicious intervention from the outside by someone else.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.
Jane Fonda -
I really do work in solitude.
Donna Tartt