Dorothy Dunnett Quotes
I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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I do what I believe the Lord did, and that is walk in love with all mankind, which I don't see a lot of Christians doing. Christians can be so judgmental that it can turn off people who are considering converting. It makes me a little embarrassed, to tell you the truth, when I hear Christians criticizing others.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.
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There is only so much I can understand and not screw up.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.
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After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.
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I wish to God,” said Gideon with mild exasperation, “that you’d talk—just once—in prose like other people.
