J. P. Donleavy Quotes
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.J. P. Donleavy
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Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.
Quentin Tarantino -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
Rakul Preet Singh -
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
La Monte Young -
My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Karen Bender -
Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
Rafael Nadal
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
Larry Brown -
The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
Ban Ki-moon -
If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
Adam Draper -
Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
J. B. Priestley -
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
Gavin Newsom -
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
Zebulon Pike -
I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.
Rachel Kushner -
I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.
Pam Grier -
In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.
Karen DeCrow -
One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
Lao Tzu -
Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.
W. G. Sebald
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
Hannah Gadsby -
Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
Yuna -
Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
Amy Harmon -
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
Edouard Rene de Laboulaye -
Sometimes you write and you find yourself almost wondering how it will turn out. I don't think every writer sort of almost admits that at some stage his books can take on their own kind of life it selves and simply lead away into directions that they're not kind of prepared for.
J. P. Donleavy