Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes
There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
Quotes to Explore
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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NRDC has helped bring hope spots to more of our shared ocean waters. We helped draft and pass a California law creating a network of underwater parks stretching from the Oregon border to the Mexican border.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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God primes the pump of obligation.
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I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
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A museum should not just be a place for fancy paintings but should be a place where we can communicate our lives through our everyday objects.
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At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
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Being cold, we're not decomposing as much as they could be.
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There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.
