Francine Prose Quotes
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.Francine Prose
Quotes to Explore
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Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to express in order to be complete, so it often happens that the building to a big crescendo feels right in the recording or writing process.
Damien Rice -
Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
Candice Bergen -
I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.
Famke Janssen -
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Ted Williams -
Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.
Naveen Jain -
People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
Karl Marx -
A lot of the tabloid stories are written so well, they're very clever and very funny. But you have to focus on what's really important and not read them - don't dive into it and don't get caught up in it.
Calista Flockhart -
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Any guy hates Valentine's Day. Even if you're in love, you can't win on Valentine's Day. If you're married, you can't win on Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is like the thing you want to avoid at all costs.
Vince Vaughn -
Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.
Gary Bettman -
I want to have fun, but I don't quite know how.
Malala Yousafzai
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It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.
Brittany Snow -
The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.
Joel Salatin -
We're all part of humanity. And maybe there's something about the worst people, with the most destructive, warped minds, that is just an acceleration of something that is in quite a few of us.
Bill Pullman -
I never went on an audition - when they were really looking at everybody.
Joan Chen -
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
Bryce Dessner The National -
In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
Donna Tartt
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I like to indulge all the facets of my personality. There's none that I don't think, in a way, I would want to take away from.
Paolo Nutini -
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
Stephen Gilchrist Glover -
I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.
Joanna Lumley -
I was frequently embarrassed by the way Margaret conducted herself within the European Community. Her tactics were counter-productive and damaging to the UK's interests. On most issues her approach was foolish. Her style and tone of voice came to irk the others so much that they instinctively sank their differences and joined forces against her.
Nigel Lawson -
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.
Francine Prose