Sarah Waters Quotes
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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That's the problem today: Who is the creator?
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Let me encourage you, if someone has wronged you, and you still get that cringing feeling on the inside when you see or think about that person, take it to God and allow Him to keep your heart soft and sensitive.
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The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth.
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I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.
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Can you imagine the feeling of being an oppressed colonial being addressed respectfully by a colonizer in the mother country?
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Most films, it doesn't matter if you see them or not.
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I want to be the girl with the most cake.
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The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.
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All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.
