Heather Brooke Quotes
I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
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Non-violence is the article of faith.
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.
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I gotta say - if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I'd love that article.
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Well first of all, I think the phrase 'jump the shark' has jumped the shark. I read it in every article and I think that when Fonzie actually jumped the shark, 'Happy Days' was on the air for another five years.
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Today the Washington Post did an article; they compared the 2008 presidential election to the 1932 presidential election. They did a comparison, mainly because 1932 was the first time John McCain ran for president.
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Cow preservation is an article of faith in Hinduism.
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We're not ignored by The Guinness Book Of Records, but we've been largely ignored by the media during our lifetime. If you read any article, no mention is ever made of Pink Floyd. We're never included in the same sentences as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who. I wrote 'The Wall' as an attack on stadium rock - and there's Pink Floyd making money out of it by playing it in stadiums! Pathetic. They spoiled my creations.
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In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all.
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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
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A maxim in law has more weight in the world than an article of faith.
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It's definitely a thing to be sitting there, getting a pedicure, and you look over and someone is reading an article about an aspect of your life that you know is not true. It's weird, it's uncomfortable, but I don't see it changing anytime soon, so I should figure a way to laugh through it.
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We've done price elasticity studies, and the answer is always that we should raise prices. We don't do that, because we believe -- and we have to take this as an article of faith -- that by keeping our prices very, very low, we earn trust with customers over time, and that that actually does maximize free cash flow over the long term.
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Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
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I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
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I balked at nothing, I was above nothing. Everything had something to teach me.
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I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.
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It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.
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I always hated the world "acting" - to say, "I'm an actor." It should be more like a believer.
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She said she arrived from Ireland after sliding off the curve of a rainbow with a dancing leprechaun and flew to America on the back of an owl.
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I think people should just remember the seventies. Remember the fun you had, and come along and experience a slice of it. Because you will laugh. You will cry. You will sing. You will dance. And you will have a good time.
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Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days.
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I've written for The Times because they have valued what I do enough to pay me. The New Statesman magazine also asked me to write an article, but they didn't want to pay me anything. To me, that shows how much they value quality journalism.
