Vita Sackville-West Quotes
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
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The Church needs more people willing to wash feet, not just point out they're dirty or complain that they smell.
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The question is not, 'Can they reason?' nor, 'Can they talk?' but rather, 'Can they suffer?'
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I leave my heart on the court every night. I earn my keep.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
