Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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I miss particularly the managing editor role on the 'Evening News.'
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Mick Jagger has produced some great films and brought us stories about the music industry that have changed the way we think about how music is made. I never thought I would actually call him my boss, let alone meet Mick Jagger or have any reason to say my name in the same sentence as his.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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That's why I had to leave Hair on Broadway, because I did it for about a year, and one night I was doing the show, and I realized, well, this is not real. I told the director. He says, man, it was a killer show tonight.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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If you keep yourself alive and current, funny is funny.
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I don't think anybody is ever going to call me to play someone who is mousy and demure.
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One of my most memorable moments serving the community was after I built the Live Civil Playground in Haiti, and I visited an orphanage and gave away shoes to all the kids. I also sat with them and helped them design their shoes. The smiles on their faces were priceless.
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Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.
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The problem for me is that I can't ever really see who Gregory is, any more than I can see what a mirror by itself looks like, because he reflects whoever's around him.
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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
