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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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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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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The growth of constitutional government, as we now understand it, was promoted by the establishment of two different sets of machinery for making laws and carrying on government.
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I'm a really bad twerker - I still haven't figured out how to do it. I actually hurt my back one day. I woke up the next morning, and my back was completely tweaked out... from twerking.
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Oooh, oh, how many eyesHave seen their dream?Oh, how many armsHave felt their dream?How many hearts, baby...Have felt their world stand still?
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He [Samuel Beckett] is great, a very great writer. Any modern writer is bound to be influenced by [James] Joyce. Of course, by Beckett as well.
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If the church is to be missionary, she must be spiritual; and if the church is to be spiritual, she must be missionary.
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Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving," and the words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy tell us that, "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
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I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
