E. B. White Quotes
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Whenever I am losing, it's like, 'It's his fault'. And whenever I'm winning it's like, 'That's us'. That's the team, the people.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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I've been able to work with great directors in Israel.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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We all want to be the sexy girl.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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I want you to begin keeping a calendar of who you see and when: the first day each year you see buttercups, the first day frogs start singing, the last day you see robins in the fall, the first day for grasshoppers. In short, I want you to pay attention.
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Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
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However, the eleventh-hour nature of these changes left us frustrated and angry — because they prevent us from telling the best stories we can. So, after a lot of soul-searching, we’ve decided to leave the book after Issue 26.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.
