William Golding Quotes
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
Ralph Steadman
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As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
Natalie Dormer
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
Fannie Hurst
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Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?
Iris Apfel
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If you love a young writer, maybe the best thing you can do is give them a little bit of space.
Zadie Smith
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
Yann Martel
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Uncertainty is seen to retard investment independently of considerations of risk or expected return.
Ben Bernanke
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He felt him transfixed, captured, nailed by his vow to the hard wood of the impossible thing he had to do.
Elizabeth Goudge
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If thou takest virtue for the rule of life, and valuest thyself upon acting in all things comfortably thereto, thou wilt have no cause to envy lords and princes; for blood is inherited, but virtue is common property, and may be acquired by all; it has, moreover, an intrinsic worth, which blood has not.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
Magnus Scheving
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I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9. I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
Ezra Miller
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.
William Golding