Miriam Toews Quotes
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I consider a work of art as a product of calculations, calculations that are frequently unknown to the author himself.
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I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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I think our guys see that they can compete here. That's a big step for a young ball club. Our guys are learning and we're getting better with each game.
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And what we called photojournalism, the photos seen in places like Life magazine, didn't interest me either. They were just not good-there was no art there. The first person who I respected immensely was Henri Cartier-Bresson. I still do.
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Love is the oxygen of the soul.
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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
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There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.
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We desperately need to recognise that we are the guests, not the masters, of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.
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David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic. . . .
