John Heywood Quotes
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
V. S. Naipaul -
They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
Ed Gillespie -
I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
D. B. Sweeney -
I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
G. H. Hardy -
I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul -
I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
Camille Claudel
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes -
I love this country, I love these people, though I can't say I love their politicians. People are always nicer than politicians, but here, you can mark that difference up a hundredfold.
Paddy Ashdown -
Film has always been where my heart is.
Tatiana Maslany -
You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
Sam Heughan -
I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
Ian Anderson -
During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
Pat Buchanan
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I say this in the spirit of feminist encouragement, but I think I'm pretty hot. I've got all the facial features, facing the right way, at the right end, and you can always paint over the bad bits with makeup.
Caitlin Moran -
I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
Waris Ahluwalia -
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo -
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Bring out the eyes.
Vidal Sassoon -
Lord, help my poor soul.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
Olivia Wilde -
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.
Plato -
More important than his record as a debater is Mr. Bush's record as a president. And therein lies the true opportunity for John Kerry - notwithstanding the president's political skills, his performance in office amounts to a catastrophic failure.
Al Gore -
The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.
Peter Mayle -
Looke or ye leape.
John Heywood