Hector Tobar Quotes
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
Hector Tobar
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
Jack Davenport
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Victor Hugo
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
Eden Hazard
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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Kate Grenville
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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If I'm such a fucking menace? This shit doesn't make sense, B! It's all political. If my music is literal, then I'm a criminal. How the FUCK can I raise a little girl? I couldn't, I wouldn't be fit to.
Eminem
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
Blaise Pascal
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Work, Mr. Burton. There’s nothing like work, for men and women. The one unforgivable sin is idleness.
Agatha Christie
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
Lewis Mumford
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They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, 'Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3.' … WELL, THEN IT'S MINUS 3, ASSHOLE! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!
Lewis Black
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I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
Lindsay Duncan
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The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie
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I am an American. Photography is my passion. The search for truth my obsession
Alfred Stieglitz
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This dance isn't just about shaking your waist and your ass.
Nagwa Fouad
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There are four accounts of the gospel itself! The momentous events of the conception, birth, life, teaching, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus of Nazareth are too vast to be adequately viewed from one angle alone. Just as we need several points of view to "see" a person's face, so we need these varied emphases and angles to gain the full perspective of all God wants us to understand.
Christopher J. H. Wright
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We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.
Hector Tobar
