Jessye Norman Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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As an entrepreneur, you only fail when you give up.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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I don't believe that employers should have access to an employee's private passwords, including Facebook.
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A lot of locked-room mysteries take time for you to pay attention and see the setup. They aren't thrillers, and they don't move along. The modern mystery story is really faster-paced, and I think modern readers tend to prefer seeing something happening on every other page.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Science can improve lives in ways that are elegant in design and moving in practice.
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I'm not a wushu champion. I was an athlete when I was a kid. I was a swimmer and a runner, but all this action stuff is such a challenge. It really, really is.
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A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
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Well, then, arrest him. You can accuse him of something or other afterward.
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Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
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Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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I make no excuses. It is what is it. I came up short. I took a chance, it didn't pay off. I'll be back.
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Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
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A government of laws, and not of men.
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Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name.
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I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.
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Malala Yousafzai is all of our daughter, like Iqbal Masih who was all of our son.
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My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
