Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
Rachel Cusk -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos -
My centre of who I thought I was was never very consciously about being beautiful or attractive - I think I'm one of those people who's actually grown into their looks.
Harriet Walter -
I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?
Larry King -
He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
Nathaniel Parker Willis -
Everybody goes through a phase of fatigue, and I am no different. Re-inventing yourself in your profession is the key to deal with fatigue.
Malaika Arora Khan
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
Patrick Roy -
If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.
Pamela Meyer -
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
Harrison Ford -
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
Abbie Cornish -
A Kindle returns us to the inconvenience of the scroll, except with batteries and electronic glitches. It's as handy as bringing Homer along to recite the 'Iliad' while playing a lyre.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
Kate Bosworth
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The best way to direct kids is to be natural and honest.
Maiwenn -
I wasn't really using Twitter before 'Pan Am.' It was a good way to promote the show and be with the viewers on Sunday and be available to them and take questions.
Karine Vanasse -
The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that were connected with the Difference Engine. These ideas are indeed, in their own intrinsic nature, independent of the latter engine and might equally have occurred had it never existed nor even been thought of at all.
Ada Lovelace -
a Masonic plot backed by the Jews
Hutton Gibson -
John Pilger: I read that you were a vegetarian and you are seriously concerned about the way animals are killed. Alan Clark: Yeah. John Pilger: Doesn’t that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?Alan Clark: Curiously not.
Alan Clark Dire Straits -
It is generally admitted that most grown-up people, however regrettably, will try to have a good time.
Bertrand Russell
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If they give me the bloody prize, why can't they say nice things about me?
John Banville -
Long-term economic growth depends mainly on nonmonetary factors such as population growth and workforce participation, the skills and aptitudes of our workforce, the tools at their disposal, and the pace of technological advance. Fiscal and regulatory policies can have important effects on these factors.
Jerome Powell -
I said we are in a mental recession. We keep getting the steady drumbeat of bad news... it's become a mental recession. We don't have measured negative growth. That's a fact, that's not a commentary.
Phil Gramm -
When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
Yayoi Kusama -
If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.
Ellie Kemper -
Love dies only when growth stops.
Pearl S. Buck