Edith Sitwell Quotes
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I grew up in New York and have lived here all my life. I think it's the best city in the world and can write about it with gusto and fervor and passion.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
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From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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There is always a certain leap of faith that editors have made with their nonfiction writers. If the trust is broken, things can get very embarrassing for the writers and the publisher.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.
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In Europe we could do it, if we fly as soon as the event is over.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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When I started in the nineties, a sample size was a 4 and a 6.
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In omnibus proeliis expeditionis condicio talis est, ut quod tibi prodest aduersarium noceat, quod illum adiuuat tibi semper officiat.
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The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
