Susan Howatch Quotes
It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
Susan Howatch
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Captain Beefheart
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
Yuri Milner
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The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
Yo-Yo Ma
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
Manuel Puig
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
Isaac Asimov
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I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!
Imani Hakim
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Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
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Then the album created a tremendous furor and got me kicked off Christian television for two months, and then restored after they settled down and listened to the music and realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Pat Boone
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I will fight to the last breath, even though my family cowers in terror in the palace.
Ferdinand Marcos
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Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.
Paloma Elsesser
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'It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.'
A. A. Milne
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When we read, we are doing more than delectating words on a page stories, characters, images, notions. We are communing with the mind of the author.
Martin Amis
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Confidence comes in going on personal journeys in a public arena and feeling as though you have a right to do that. You have to give yourself permission to discover what you need to discover and not worry about how pretty the journey is. If you're aware of the pretty, you're not going to dig into the mess.
George C. Wolfe
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Glances are the first billets-doux of love.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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While many big-data providers do their best to de-identify individuals from human-subject data sets, the risk of re-identification is very real.
Kate Crawford
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It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
Susan Howatch
