Francine Prose Quotes
Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I am healthy and happy.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.
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You don't see many Jon Jones's.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.
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Many support what I am doing.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.
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Any club is important. All Latin music movements are born in clubs. There is no better research than going to a club. If your music works, it will bounce up.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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From him Wilard Bennett I learned how different a working laboratory is from a student laboratory. The answers are not known! While an undergraduate, doing experimental measurements in the laboratory of his professor, at Ohio State University.
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People want to make sure there is flexibility to reallocate assets. They are trusting us to make the asset allocation decisions.
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Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.
