African Spir Quotes
The feeling ("sens", Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused ? arose ?... sorry, - "suscité", Fr.) by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better (or more, - "pour mieux se", Fr.) differentiate ourselves of another.
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My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.
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I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.
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I wrote 'The Room', 'The Birthday Party', and 'The Dumb Waiter' in 1957, I was acting all the time in a repertory company, doing all kinds of jobs, traveling to Bournemouth and Torquay and Birmingham.
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To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
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I'll never get a Humanitas Award, but I'll have fun.
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Every time I see a child walking down the street I like to trip them. While they look for their missing teeth, I personally remind them that no matter how hard they try I will always be better than them.
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The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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The feeling ("sens", Fr.) of solidarity that is born amidst a community rest on the feeling of antagonism arouse (aroused ? arose ?... sorry, - "suscité", Fr.) by those who are opposed to it. Most of the time we only adhere to a party or a group, in order to better (or more, - "pour mieux se", Fr.) differentiate ourselves of another.
