Fay Weldon Quotes
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.Fay Weldon
Quotes to Explore
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
Vicki Lawrence -
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
Laura Linney -
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
G. Willow Wilson -
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp -
As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
Kate Smith -
One thing that the audience, and perhaps critics, aren't aware of is that, especially in a film like 'Moonlight,' you always shoot a lot more footage than makes the cut of the film.
Mahershala Ali
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But I've got more to learn, too. I don't feel like I'm done or I know it all.
Gary Sinise -
Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
Rahm Emanuel -
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
Ian MacKaye -
When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
Illeana Douglas -
I know people who have a much better recollection of their childhood than I do. They remember very well when they were a year and a half and two years old. I've only one or two daguerreotypes that come to mind.
Orson Welles -
The Indian business has largely grown on the back of exports. The domestic markets, as far as our Indian business is concerned, actually have contracted because of the contraction in the medium and heavy commercial vehicle space.
Baba Kalyani
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
Nancy Werlin -
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Oscar Wilde -
I always liked movies like 'American Graffiti' and 'Gregory's Girl.' 'Gregory's Girl' is particularly perfect because it really captures that summer holiday bubble of teenage utopia. Even though it's got a happy ending, there's a feeling that these characters may never see each other again.
Edgar Wright -
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no one thinks of teaching, in that context, as a kind of forcing of the will. But there seems to be an idea of writing as an intuitive pastime which is being dishonestly subjected to counterintuitive methods.
Rachel Cusk -
The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.
Ban Ki-moon -
I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.
Lalla Ward
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Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.
Sarah Palin -
Serbia has shown enough patience, but it has also sent a clear and strong message that the law must be respected and that no one is stronger than the state.
Ivica Dacic -
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
Margaret Anderson -
If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.
Johannes Tauler -
The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
Ted Hughes -
One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.
Fay Weldon