Stephen Greenblatt (Stephen Jay Greenblatt) Quotes
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
Sam Smith
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
Olga Kurylenko
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I was quite keen on silviculture, the growing of trees, and that was something I gave a lot of thought to. Maybe I could've gone in that direction. But it just so happened that while I was trying to make up my mind, I enrolled in art school, and there I began to develop my interest in music, parallel with my interest in the visual arts.
Ian Anderson
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
Harry Bridges
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I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.
Barbara Bush
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I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
Harold Simmons
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I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'
Fantasia Barrino
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
Nazanin Boniadi
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that.
Patricia Heaton
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
Oscar Isaac
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
Barton Gellman
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It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
Ma Jian
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I'm for prayer in schools.
Charles Evers
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
D. B. Weiss
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I couldn't even pick up the newspaper without saying, 'This is a fine piece of writing. I wish to hell I could write like this.'
Frank McCourt
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I just want people to focus on the performance.
Janet McTeer
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Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig.
Stephen Greenblatt
