Rachel Billington Quotes

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

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• I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Art
  • Moment
  • Immature

• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Say

• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Death
  • Man
  • Die

• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Free
  • Reading
  • Poetry

• Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • American
  • Black
  • Friday

• Green, red, and mixed shades of haemins are known. If magnesium is replaced by iron in chlorophyll, green haemins are obtained. Their colour is due to a strong band in the red which is already recognized in chlorophyll.

  

  Otto Heinrich Warburg
  • Strong
  • Band
  • Red

• Art lies by its own artifice.

  

  Ovid
  • Art
  • Lies
  • Own

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Summer

• Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Problem
  • Students
  • Israel

• Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Giving
  • Always
  • Grateful

• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Power
  • See
  • Leader

• All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • May
  • Truth

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.

  

  Ashley McBryde
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Girl

• Honestly, music is an expression, and if you will be that voice for these girls, there are some people that feel this. This is universal.

  

  Selena Gomez
  • People
  • Music

• For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who are just plain nuts.

  

  Christine Lavin
  • People

• When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

  

  Rachel Billington
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