Sarah Fielding Quotes
If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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I worked on the workshop of 'Topdog/Underdog' before it went to Broadway. My minor in school was theater, so I'm based in that, and then I moved to Los Angeles.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I don't know how to cook, but I do know how to bake.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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We try to write things that work on a variety of levels at the same time: A sleek exterior with a turbulent lyric.
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Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
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Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nadaTeu exagera ou exclui.Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto ésNo mínimo que fazes.Assim em cada lago a lua todaBrilha, porque alta vive.
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Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.
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She sank again into the salty water...into the delicious warm brine-tasting depths of her grief.
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The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.
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Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.
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I fantasised about becoming an author and wrote my first book at 18 - an introspective novel set in the 1920s.
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Niven made a name for himself as a hard SF author, which is to say, someone whose SF provides enough technical detail that the reader can be certain that various mechanisms and events couldn't work the way the author has them working.
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Relationships are like cell phone providers. None are perfect. You just find one that works most of the time and doesn't flake out on you when you need it most.
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There is the specter of "realism" that is still haunting Chinese contemporary art - that art is only an instrument, an instrument to reflect society, that it must be useful for society. Also, I have noticed many Western media outlets are very insistent on understanding contemporary art in China through this kind of realist approach. Sometimes I even sense that they are intent on, as we say in China, "picking bones of politics out of an egg of art." Or perhaps they see art as merely an instrument to reflect society.
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If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.
