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.

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• Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Day
  • Democracy
  • Everyday

• 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
  • Time
  • Country
  • Perspective

• 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
  • School
  • Day
  • Teachers

• I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.

  

  Mae West
  • Good
  • Man
  • Hate

• I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

  

  Pam Gems
  • War
  • Philosophy
  • Personage

• I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Think
  • Crazy

• Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Man
  • Allah

• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Power
  • Government
  • Judge

• I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Work
  • History
  • Career

• I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Know
  • Me

• That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Satisfied

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Getting Older

• I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Profession
  • Homebody

• 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
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Space

• While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • World
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Real
  • Career
  • Movies

• Clear, unscaleable ahead, Rise the mountains of instead From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams

  

  W. H. Auden
  • May
  • Dream
  • Cold

• I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Read
  • Forgotten
  • Plato

• There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.

  

  Matthew Continetti
  • Time
  • Republicans
  • Plenty

• Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Abortion
  • Pregnancy
  • Amendments

• 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
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  • Novels
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