Scott Spencer Quotes
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.Scott Spencer
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley -
I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer -
Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.
Narendra Modi -
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber
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The good romances are as good as anything.
Karen Robards -
A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
Oliver North -
As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
Karen Kingsbury -
You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
Ted Cruz -
I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
Carla Hall -
All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
Ralph Baer
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I like heels and make-up.
Victoria Pendleton -
Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
Kate Moss -
I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
Larry Kramer -
I talk to myself out loud at times, and feel embarrassed when people overhear me.
Walter Dean Myers -
I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
Mandy Patinkin -
I just missed out on qualifying for the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Natalie du Toit
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I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.
Rachel Kushner -
'The Dante Club' was one of America's most important book clubs, as their Wednesday night meetings ultimately led to our country's first exposure to Dante's poetry on a wide scale.
Matthew Pearl -
In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
Not only that - college doesn't particularly qualify you for the outside world. he world is changing so fast, and college is not. It should strive to be more in tune with the world.
Kent McCord -
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
Scott Spencer