Malachy McCourt Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Daniel Barenboim -
It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
Felix Frankfurter -
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
Barry Ritholtz -
It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
Zola Jesus -
If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
Gavin Newsom
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Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West -
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
Patricia Briggs -
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Kate DiCamillo -
Declaring the San Gabriel Mountains a national monument will make this natural wonder more accessible. It will welcome people from all walks of life and maintain the mountains' wild character at the same time.
Frances Beinecke -
I'm an artist at heart.
Lance Reddick -
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier -
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim -
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman -
I've always been extremely physically active.
Danai Gurira -
The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
Barbara Amiel -
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
Venus Williams
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Don't care what people say. Don't give a damn about their laws.
Edith Piaf -
All my songs are where I am.
Adam Duritz Matt Malley -
I would never ever, ever, ever, ever do it again [All My Children]. It was the scariest thing I've ever done. I have such respect for people who do it, who can do it. What happened was they caught me at a good moment. I could use the money and this came along and it was with Susan and I thought, "Susan Lucci. I have to do this.
Richard Masur -
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor -
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt