John Millington Synge Quotes
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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If you are friends with someone, and you're like 'Hey, what ethnicity are you,' that's cool. But you wouldn't walk up to a white person and say, 'What kind of white are you?'
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The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
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When I dine with CEOs at Michael's in New York or Spago in L.A., we score the best tables. On my own, I wind up seated near the kitchen doors.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
