William Dean Howells (The Dean of American Letters) Quotes
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If a division becomes insolvent, the credit markets' reaction to that is immediate - regardless of what period of time you think you have to remedy.
Walker Stapleton -
I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. Travers -
I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
Oona Chaplin -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
Salman Rushdie -
I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits – I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'
Bat for Lashes
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
Salman Rushdie -
I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
Uma Thurman -
I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
Zooey Deschanel -
But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
Ted Shackelford -
The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
Iris Chang -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
Karl Marx -
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
F. Murray Abraham -
I think it's really important whilst you're a young actor to try as many new things as possible... to try and do something you haven't necessarily been seen doing before.
Ed Speleers -
The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
Caitriona Balfe -
Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
A. R. Ammons -
I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
Natalie Dormer
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My mother married my father in 1956. She was twenty-eight, and he was thirty-one. She loved him with a fierce steadiness borne of loyalty, determination, and an unyielding dignity.
Jill Lepore -
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Oscar Wilde -
I wonder why we hate the past so.
William Dean Howells