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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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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.
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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.
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I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.
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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.
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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
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I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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What makes You Can't Take It With You so popular and a perennial favorite with student and amateur productions (it continues to be one of the top 10 best-selling plays year after year) is the breadth of characters and personalities on display: in age, race, gender, social status, a true cross section of society when the play was written and also true today in terms of the reality of the humanity on display.
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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.
