Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes
I read many wonderful novels, though I now find the idea of literary fiction obsolete.Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
E. B. White -
Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
Naval Ravikant -
Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore -
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
Rachel Joyce -
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim
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The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
Caitlin Doughty -
When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
E. Y. Harburg -
I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
Gary Carter -
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.
Jack Kevorkian -
Once you start a war, you have to win.
G. Gordon Liddy -
When I sit down to write, I know everything I need to know... I start writing, and within 30 seconds or 60 seconds, I'm watching a movie. I'm not making this stuff up; the characters are acting it out,and I'm just writing it down.
M. J. Rose
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
Vera Farmiga -
My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile -
Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.
Edward Herrmann -
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
Joanne Rowling -
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
Bob Weir Grateful Dead -
Close friends consider me a literary snob.
Rabih Alameddine