Alan Hollinghurst Quotes
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.Alan Hollinghurst
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
Working with Mario Testino was a joy. He's very young spirited, and it's always lovely and a pleasure to spend time talking to him about all different things.
Cara Delevingne -
I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.
Daniel Bryan -
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
A. S. Byatt -
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher
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I have lived and slept in the same bed with English countesses and Prussian farm women... no woman has excited passions among women more than I have.
Florence Nightingale -
I have a really hard time finding good denim.
Camila Alves -
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
R. Kelly -
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
Imogen Heap -
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla -
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
Laura Miller
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There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.
Sam Abell -
I waste energy on anger rather than investing it in hope.
Parker Palmer -
Brainwashed from rock and rap.
Eminem -
'So you say, so you say,' murmured Fflewddur, hurrying after him. 'Look closer into your heart. You may find your opinion to be somewhat different.'
Lloyd Alexander -
The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.
Betty White -
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
Dita Von Teese
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Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.
Ken Hill -
I never really sang for anyone, apart from in the shower or with my best friend. I was shy. I didn't want to take voice lessons. I knew I could sing, but I just didn't tell anyone.
Jillian Hervey -
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.
Johnny Kelly Black Label Society -
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.
Alan Hollinghurst