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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It is not possible to unknow what you do know - the result of that is fanaticism.
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One of the most exciting intellectual moments of my career was my 1948 discovery of Knut Wicksell's unknown and untranslated dissertation, 'Finanztheoretische Untersuchungen,' buried in the dusty stacks of Chicago's old Harper Library.
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To tell you the truth, while I do enjoy the grand-scale elements, it's the personal scenes, the character moments that I really find satisfying. That's where I get to delve into the characters' minds and hearts. That's where they become living, breathing beings to me.
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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The same thought... crosses my mind whenever someone tells me there's something I can't do: Try Stopping Me.
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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.
