Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
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I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.
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The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.
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I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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The second trial was a fair trial. I do not call it a second trial. I call it a fair trial, as opposed to the first trial, which was an unfair trial, a Roman holiday.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he was assembling his papers and making sure they were going to be in a state of preservation that would represent as best he could the official side of what occurred during the Revolution.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
