Steven Saylor Quotes
Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
Steven Saylor
Quotes to Explore
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
Tadashi Yanai
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As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'
Harriet Tubman
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
D. H. Lawrence
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett
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The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.
Sam Smith
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We need to send Barack Obama back to Chicago. I'd like to send him back to Kenya, back to Indonesia. We have to unmask this man. This is a man that seeks to destroy all concept of God. And I will tell you what, this is classical Marxist philosophy.
Rafael Cruz
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
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Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
Nancy Friday
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I'd like to do a story about the medieval ages where in every scene you'd sort of feel that you were in the 12th century. That would be great to get that feeling.
Oliver Stone
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In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.
Ira Glass
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Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
Octavio Paz
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I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
Zoe Kravitz
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The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.
Umberto Eco
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When, from the top of any high hill, one looks round the country, and sees the multitude of regularly distributed spires, one not only ceases to wonder that order and religion are maintained, but one is astonished that any such thing as disaffection or irreligion should prevail.
William Cobbett
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
Stanley Kubrick
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Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
Steven Saylor
