Nina Bawden Quotes
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
Nina Bawden
Quotes to Explore
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
Naval Ravikant
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Daniel Barenboim
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
Walter Gropius
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
Mae West
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
Vin Scully
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
Wallace Stevens
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I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.
Patrick Rothfuss
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
Patrick deWitt
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We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.
Arthur C. Clarke
