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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Land-use ethics are still governed wholly by economic self-interest, just as social ethics were a century ago.
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My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?
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I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.
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I am especially glad of the divine gift of laughter: it has made the world human and lovable, despite all its pain and wrong.
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Most of those who died did not die of hunger but of hatred. Feeling hatred diminishes you. It eats at your from within and attacks the immune system. When you have hatred inside you, it always crushes you in the end.
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I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
