Scarlett Thomas Quotes
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.Scarlett Thomas
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Russians not only vehemently despise blacks, they believe Africa begins at the Ukraine border.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
Zadie Smith -
I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot -
The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.
Ursula Burns -
What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
Frances McDormand
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When I was in Beck's world, I felt like the little sister. I'm in the big brother's room with all his friends. You just hang out and keep your mouth shut so they don't realize you're there and kick you out. I like being in situations where I can be an underdog, where I can be in the corner and observe and soak it in.
Feist -
You know, there's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
Dak Prescott -
I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.
Wally Schirra -
I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
Eleanora Fagan -
When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
Anand Giridharadas
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I am blessed with a funny gene that makes me enjoy life.
Karan Patel -
I don't relax. I can't take vacations. I'm obsessive-compulsive, and I worry with every project that I'm going to fail. When it starts to go well, and I sense that something beautiful and important and meaningful is being created, it's a fantastic feeling, and I find it very hard to stop.
Mary Ellen Mark -
It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.
Elle Varner -
By innovating and investing in health technology, we believe that we can really change the future of health.
Frans van Houten -
The Internet will continue to be valuable so long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring data. Bitcoin's value is the same: It will remain as long as it is the most efficient mechanism for transferring ownership.
Fred Ehrsam -
The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo.
Bob Iger
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Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear
William Shakespeare -
No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.
Isaac Watts -
I have purposely presented the land ethic as a product of social evolution because nothing so important as an ethic is ever ‘written’ … it evolves in the minds of a thinking community.
Aldo Leopold -
For me reading the book [The Exorcist], I had the same questions that everyone else had. How does she jump up and down off the bed? How does her head spin around? How does she throw up?
Linda Blair -
I think predictability is built into any good novel in some way - you begin reading Anna Karenina and you know pretty much what's going to happen at the end. But that doesn't mean you know what's going to happen in the middle. For me, it's that sense of what happens in the middle that's important.
Scarlett Thomas